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Roget category 383

3. Words relating to matter
3.3. Organic matter
›› 3.3.2. Sensation

#383. Cold

noun

cold, coldness etc. adj. — frigidity, inclemency, fresco.
winterdepth of winter, hard winterSiberia, Nova Zemblawind-chill factor.
[forms of frozen water] icesnow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow driftsleethail, hailstonerime, frosthoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frostbarfglaze [U.S.], lolly [U.S.]icicle, thick-ribbed icefall of snow, heavy falliceberg, icefloefloe bergglaciernev_ee, seracpruina.
[cold substances] freezing mixture, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, liquid helium.
[Sensation of cold] chilliness etc. adj. — chillshivering etc. v. — goose skin, horripilationrigorchattering of teethnumbness, frostbite.

verb

be cold etc. adj. — shiver, starve, quake, shake, tremble, shudder, didder, quiverfreeze, freeze to death, perish with cold.
freeze etc. (render cold) 385horripilate, make the skin crawl, give one goose flesh.

adjective

cold, coolchill, chillyicygelid, frigid, algidfresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinchingclay-coldstarved etc. (made cold) 385chilled to the bone, shivering etc. v. — aguish, transi de froid [Fr.]frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped.
cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmascool as a cucumber, cool as custard.
icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose, wintry, brumal, hibernal, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemalhyperborean, hyperborealiceboundfrozen out.
unwarmed, unthawedlukewarm, tepidisocheimal, isocheimenal, isocheimic.
frozen, numb, frost-bitten.

adverb

coldly, bitterly etc. adj. — pierre fendre [Fr.]

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