ice up
Develop frozen coating
To ice up is to become covered or clogged with ice: The windshield iced up overnight, The plane's wings were icing up.
The phrase emphasizes accumulation—ice forming where it causes problems, especially on machinery, vehicles, or equipment exposed to cold and moisture.
- solidifyMake or become hard
- freezeBecome solid from cold
- rimeGranular ice deposit
- frost heaveSoil expansion from ice
- windshield wiperMotorized glass-clearing blade
frozen over · crystallize · congeal · intake · fuel line · engine block · unresponsive · winter · dead of winter · cold snap · below zero · seize · glaze · harden · throttle · frost · carburettor · overnight