icy cold

collocation in English

meaningsoficyandcold

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icy
adjective
uk
/ˈaɪ.si/us
/ˈaɪ.si/
covered ...
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cold
noun
uk
/kəʊld/us
/koʊld/
a common infection, especially in the nose and throat, that causes you to cough and sneeze and your nose to run (= drip liquid) or ...
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(Definition oficyandcoldfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoficy cold

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When theicycoldcomes to the one who can endure being out?
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The water was clear andicycold.
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The day burning hot, or theicycoldof night.
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The song contains anicycold, hip hop landscape.
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Kentigern would frequently pray standing in theicycoldriver.
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On one occasion the lamps went out and the water becameicycold.
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Not only was the wintericycold, but because of fuel-shortages the school was unheated.
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He spends his days chilling in the shade and sippingicycolddrinks.
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When our hands areicycoldwe do not plunge them into hot water to thaw them; the pain is too great.
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Devils can also swim and have been observed crossing rivers that are in width, includingicycoldwaterways, apparently enthusiastically.
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He put his head under the water and held his breath, whereupon he felt anicycoldpenetrating his rear.
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I'm afraid the fluids in her veins have always been asicycoldas they are now in death.
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A janitor had found him helpless with pain, and his shoes and clothing were wet andicycold.
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When the inspectors visited this home, they found two toddlers sitting unattended on pots in the toddlers' bathroom, naked from the waist in a room described asicycold.
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The two signallers who had the other end of the cable in their hands tried to pull him out of theicycoldwaters.
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He came back upset, and said that she had been given shock treatment oficycoldshowers and that her face was quite blue.
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Her moods change as quickly as a cat's - she can erupt in passion in one minute, and turnicycoldin the next.
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With this new information, police focused their search around that area for many days, and even scanned theicycoldlake for clues.
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According to another account, after five to ten minutes, theicycoldwater causes your blood vessels to tighten and drains the blood out of your legs.
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