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glaciate

verb

  1. cover with glaciers
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Wiktionary

verb

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin glaciātus, perfect passive participle of glaciō (“to freeze”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

  1. To cover with ice or a glacier.
  2. To erode with a glacier.

    The nivated and glaciated areas shared the same snowfall and the same climatic conditions […]

    At that point the cuesta is 10 miles wide but the hilltops have an eastward descent of only about 62 feet. In its general eastward slope the surface of the cuesta is exactly that of one made by weathering and stream erosion, acting upon a gently-dipping limestone bed in a region never glaciated.

  3. To freeze.