"winter-kill" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: winter-kills [present, singular, third-person], winter-killing [participle, present], winter-killed [participle, past], winter-killed [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} winter-kill (third-person singular simple present winter-kills, present participle winter-killing, simple past and past participle winter-killed)
  1. (transitive) To kill by the effects of wintery conditions Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-winter-kill-en-verb-hRyXjIwJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52
  2. (intransitive) To die from the lethal effects of wintery conditions Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-winter-kill-en-verb-13CdxjwU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: winter-killed [adjective], winterkill [noun]

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for winter-kill meaning in English (1.7kB)

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