glaciate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb cover with ice or snow or a glacier
    • the entire area was glaciated
  2. verb become frozen and covered with glaciers

WordNet

Gla"ci*ate intransitive verb
Etymology
L. glaciatus, p. p. of glaciare to freeze, fr. glacies ice.
Definitions
  1. To turn to ice.
Gla"ci*ate transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To convert into, or cover with, ice.
  2. (Geol.) To produce glacial effects upon, as in the scoring of rocks, transportation of loose material, etc.

Webster 1913