"glacify" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1884 February, Frederic Courtland Penfield, “Over the Ortler”, in Outing and The Wheelman, volume 3, number 5, page 349",
          "text": "\"Perhaps the boys were right in waiting for the snow to glacify,\" said the Traveller; \" but we're in for it now, and nothing but bad luck will keep us from sleeping in Italy to-night,\" he continued reassuringly.",
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          "ref": "2002, Stephen Barber, Annihilation Zones: Far East Atrocities of the 20th Century, page 30",
          "text": "Ishii's staff calculated the exact moment at which the human body froze to a lethal level of immobility and its flesh began to glacify.",
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          "ref": "2011, Nicole Mölders, Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes",
          "text": "If LCC increase the number of IN, the ice-particle concentrations will increase and ice-particle sizes will decrease; the cloud may glacify over a relatively narrow altitude range.",
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        "To become icy; to freeze into ice or ice crystals."
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        "(intransitive) To become icy; to freeze into ice or ice crystals."
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          "ref": "1887, Joyce Emmerson Muddock, The J.E.M.\" Guide to Switzerland",
          "text": "We may remark here that perfectly dry snow cannot be glacified, and that in the formation of glacier ice the water necessary for its production comes from the melting of the superficial layers of snow by the sun .",
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          "ref": "1923, Ivan Nazhivin, Rasputin - Volume 2, page 391",
          "text": "On those heights the outposts would lie shivering in the trenches until they felt as if they were turned throughout to ice, and could note what happened only automatically — note the falling of an avalanche, a distant rifle-shot, the overhead passage of a scouting aeroplane, occurrences invariably followed once more by the absolute silence which brooded over the region amid a cold to glacify the very soul, to send a man out of his senses.",
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          "ref": "2004, Tony Griffiths, Scandinavia, page 238",
          "text": "The ideals of sustainable growth, perpetual augmentation of living standards, and the continual improvement in the services of the Scandinavian welfare states were glacified by a new ice age, as economic rationalists took the helm in the face of economic collapse.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To cause to turn into ice."
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        "(transitive) To cause to turn into ice."
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  "word": "glacify"
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          "text": "\"Perhaps the boys were right in waiting for the snow to glacify,\" said the Traveller; \" but we're in for it now, and nothing but bad luck will keep us from sleeping in Italy to-night,\" he continued reassuringly.",
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          "ref": "1887, Joyce Emmerson Muddock, The J.E.M.\" Guide to Switzerland",
          "text": "We may remark here that perfectly dry snow cannot be glacified, and that in the formation of glacier ice the water necessary for its production comes from the melting of the superficial layers of snow by the sun .",
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        "(transitive) To cause to turn into ice."
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