snow out

See also: snowout

English

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Verb

snow out (third-person singular simple present snows out, present participle snowing out, simple past and past participle snowed out)

1. (idiomatic) To cover with snow.
   • 1855, Charles Dickens, “The Guest”, in The Holly-Tree Inn:

     The drift was becoming prodigiously deep; landmarks were getting snowed out; the road and the fields were all one:

2. (usually in passive) To prevent (an event) from occurring because of snow.
   • 2003, David Davis, Of Preachers and Pagans:

     It snowed during the second week of February, snowed Thursday and Friday, snowed out the Friday night basketball game with Bethel Christian Academy, snowed until Saturday morning, then turned extremely cold

Related terms

• snow in