snow
verb/snəʊ/
/snəʊ/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they snow | /snəʊ/ /snəʊ/ |
| he / she / it snows | /snəʊz/ /snəʊz/ |
| past simple snowed | /snəʊd/ /snəʊd/ |
| past participle snowed | /snəʊd/ /snəʊd/ |
| -ing form snowing | /ˈsnəʊɪŋ/ /ˈsnəʊɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] when it snows, snow falls from the sky
- It's been snowing heavily all day.
- It snowed for three days without stopping.
- It was still snowing outside.
Extra ExamplesTopics Weathera1- It started snowing just as we were setting out.
- We woke up to find that it had snowed overnight.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- hard
- heavily
- lightly
- …
- begin to
- start to
- start snowing
- stop snowing
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- [transitive] snow somebody (North American English, informal) to impress somebody a lot by the things you say, especially if these are not true or not sincere
- He really snowed me with all his talk of buying a Porsche.
Word OriginOld English snāw, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch sneeuw and German Schnee, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin nix, niv- and Greek nipha.
Idioms
See snow in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybe snowed in/up
- to be unable to leave a place because of heavy snow
- We were snowed in for two days.
be snowed under (with something)
- to have more things, especially work, than you feel able to deal with
- I'd love to come but I'm completely snowed under at the moment.
be snowed up
- (especially of a road) to be blocked with snow
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