frore
adjEtymology
From Middle English frore, froare, yfrore, froren, from Old English froren, ġefroren (“frozen”), from Proto-West Germanic *froʀan, from Proto-Germanic *fruzanaz (“frozen”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *freusaną (“to freeze”). Doublet of frorn and frozen.
Definitions
Extremely cold
Extremely cold; frozen.
- We die, even as the winds of Autumn fade, Expiring in the frore and foggy air.
- For heavenly beauty, mid perennial springs, Feels not the change, which frore sad winter brings.
- Till we conceive their heavens hoar, Those lights they raise but sparkles frore,
simple past and past participle of freeze
- And down below all fretted and frore, Were wrought the coral and the madrepore, […]
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA