Converse of object

• melt: With the melted snows from nearby mountain ranges, there is no lack of water for irrigation.

• shovel: I had a tough go as a kid and my animals kept me going, I shoveled snow mowed lawns to buy feed.

• thaw: This crossing might be hazardous, or even impossible, if the river is in spate after heavy rain or thawing snow.

• blow: Each night the wind would blow the snow off the moor to drift across the road and the work had to start again.

• lie: In Northern Ireland there was 18cm of lying snow.

Adjective modifier

• powdery: Had to cut a channel 4 5 foot deep through the powdery snow.

• heavy: Heavy snow also affected NE Scotland forcing 80 schools to close.

• fresh: We had five days left, and no chance of setting foot on the route until two meters of fresh snow had settled.

• unconsolidated: Ben Nevis has piles of new unconsolidated snow from the foot of Tower Ridge upwards in all locations.

• unstable: Due to poorer visibility and unstable snow next day we went skiing.

• deep: Black Forest families carved cuckoo clocks during the hard and long winters when deep snow kept them inside.

Modifies a noun

• leopard: The next thing she new she was being pounced on by a snow leopard.

• flurry: About Bob, the pages flutter down, in a pathetic little snow flurry.

• plow: Our winter service vehicles can all be quickly fitted with snow plows.

• cannon: Almost all the slopes are covered by snow cannons.

• storm: Where else in the world would you change draw times to accommodate players stranded in New York by an early season snow storm.

• slope: From base camp, we climb directly up the slope below the Urus glacier to gain easy snow slopes.

Noun used with modifier

• powder: For expert skiers, powder snow provides the ultimate experience on skis.

• winter: In the winter snow, they can change color to white to avoid detection.

• shovel: I can drive all over the place, I can go for walks, I can shovel snow.