English
Hands afflicted with frostbite.
Etymology
frost + bite
Noun
frostbite (countable and uncountable, plural frostbites)
- An injury suffered as a result of freezing of some part of the body, typically fingers, toes or the nose.
Coordinate terms
Translations
the freezing of some part of the body
- Bulgarian: измръзване n (izmrǎzvane), измръзнало място n (izmrǎznalo mjasto)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 凍瘡／冻疮 (zh) (dòngchuāng), 冻疮 (zh) (dòngchuāng), 凍傷／冻伤 (zh) (dòngshāng), 冻伤 (zh) (dòngshāng), 瘃 (zh) (zhú)
- Dutch: bevriezing (nl) f
- Faroese: frost n, frostsár n
- Finnish: paleltuminen, paleltuma (fi), pakkasenpurema
- French: gelure (fr) f
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Erfrierung (de) f, Frostbeule (de) f
- Greek: κρυοπάγημα (el) n (kryopágima)
- Japanese: 霜焼け (ja) (しもやけ, shimoyake) / 霜焼 (しもやけ, shimoyake), 凍瘡 (ja) (とうそう, tōsō), 凍傷 (ja) (とうしょう, tōshō)
- Korean: 동상 (ko) (凍傷, dongsang)
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- Malay: luka beku
- Maori: mate hukapuri
- Mongolian: хөлдөөх (xöldööx)
- Nepali: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: شجام (fa) (šajām)
- Polish: odmrożenie n
- Portuguese: congelamento (pt) m
- Russian: обмороже́ние (ru) n (obmorožénije)
- Sherpa: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: congelamiento (es) m, congelación (es) f
- Swedish: köldskada c, förfrysning (sv) c
- Tibetan: གངས་ཕྱིད (gangs phyid)
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Verb
frostbite (third-person singular simple present frostbites, present participle frostbiting, simple past frostbit, past participle frostbitten)
- (transitive) To expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or nip with frost. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (intransitive) To engage in winter sailboating.
Derived terms
Translations
to expose to the effect of frost
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