icebound

Speech parts

1. icebound - Adjective

2. icebound - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Totally surrounded with ice, so as to be incapable of advancing; as, an icebound vessel; also, surrounded by or fringed with ice so as to hinder easy access; as, an icebound coast.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

siberian himalayan arctic antarctic alpine confined frozen freezing glacial icy frigid frosty numb cramped brumal
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Antonyms

red summer hot warm burning friendly
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Examples

He now set down all the communications apparatus, rose stiffly from the chair and momentarily stood facing the misty, immobile, icebound shape of Joe Chip resting within its transparent plastic casket. Upright and silent, as it would be for the rest of eternity. Philip K. Dick

icebound harbors Source: Internet

The castle was razed to the ground by the Oeselians. citation A 20,000 strong army under Papal legate William of Modena crossed the frozen sea while the Saaremaa fleet was icebound, in January 1227. Source: Internet

The two ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror become icebound the first winter, and the captains and crew struggle to survive while being stalked across an Arctic landscape by a monster. Source: Internet

John Collier 's painting of Henry Hudson with his son and some crew members after a mutiny on his icebound ship. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

iceboat iceboater iceboating icebow icebox icebox cake