blizzard
blizzard
Definition
☆ bliz·zard (bliz′ərd)
noun
- a severe snowstorm characterized by cold temperatures and heavy drifting of snow
- an overwhelming number or amount; deluge
Etymology: ? < dial. bliz, violent blow; ? akin to Ger blitz, lightning
blizzard
Synonyms
blizzard
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- rage: This event, a Winter Pairs match, was fished in a raging blizzard with a north wind to help cool things down.
- drive: In a driving blizzard, with his inexperienced helper ( Patrick Holt ), they seek shelter in a log cabin.
- have: Tonight ( March 13, 1997 ) we are having a blizzard!
- blow: To find the summit shelter in a full blown blizzard is very reassuring.
- cause: This makes it snow on Earth and if it is done too roughly, it could cause blizzards!
Converse of subject
- hit: No blizzard of virus attacks Linux systems are not hit by the blizzard of virus attacks typically associated with other software.
Adjective modifier
- bad: Here's an example of what we get up to: It was the worst blizzard in sixty years.
- great: On Thursday 27th February we at last managed to piece together the Secret Science we were denied by the great blizzard on 30th January.
- white-out: Suddenly, the weather deteriorated and they were hit by a white-out blizzard.
- severe: A farmer and his family were trapped in their house in mid winter during the height of a severe blizzard.
- fierce: Today, it is largely barren, hampered by swamps and salt lakes and prone to fierce blizzards.
- bitter: Before long the hunter was caught in a bitter blizzard, the wind sweeping across the bare tussocks blasting the snow horizontally before it.
Modifies a noun
- condition: A massive search by many teams in blizzard conditions.
- warning: A 125-mile corridor from Colorado Springs to the New Mexico line was under a blizzard warning.
Noun used with modifier
- snow: When we were at last out there was a hailing snow blizzard and everything iced up ( hair, ladder etc.
- winter: Hatch and Lindsey Harrison have a car accident during a winter blizzard and they are thrown into an icy river.
- whiteout: Meanwhile, I watched other bike, foot and ski racers appear from the Dalzell Gorge with tales of waist-deep snow and whiteout blizzards.
- freezing: Most of episode two takes place in the middle of a freezing blizzard.
Preposition: of
Browse dictionary entries near blizzard
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- blithesome
- blithering
- blithe
- blistering
- blister rust
- blister copper
- blister beetle
- blk
- BLM
- bloat
- bloater
- blob
- bloc
- Bloch
- block
- block and tackle
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