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ice-cold

[ ahys-kohld ]

/ ˈaɪsˈkoʊld /

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adjective

cold as ice: Her feet were ice-cold.

without warmth of feeling or manner; unemotional; passionless: an ice-cold reception.

Origin of ice-cold

before 1000; Old English is-calde; unrecorded in Middle English

SYNONYMS FOR ice-cold

1 icelike, freezing, icy, frozen.

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Words nearby ice-cold

ice tongs, ice tongue, ice water, ice wine, ice yacht, ice-cold, ice-cream cone, ice-cream parlor, ice-cream parlor chair, ice-cream social, ice-cream soda

Example sentences from the Web for ice-cold

Edward, on the other hand, is a brooding, self-absorbed Byronic hero with ice-cold hands.

Battle of the Twilight Heartthrobs |The Daily Beast |June 23, 2010 |DAILY BEAST
When it comes to appearing as themselves in movies, however, both stars are ice-cold.

Why Comedians Have Short Careers |Kim Masters |May 22, 2010 |DAILY BEAST
She was steady enough in a moment, cool and calm, moving about her work with ice-cold hands and slightly narrowed eyes.

K |Mary Roberts Rinehart
They shudder and shrink from the ice-cold water, but Jaquis and I urge them, and in they plunge.

The Last Spike |Cy Warman

With ice-cold water from the stream he drenched the bruised face.

The Yukon Trail |William MacLeod Raine
He felt it as the fevered man feels the ice-cold water on his brow,—a transient sense of what it would be to be well again.

Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. |Charles James Lever
He was at his wits' end, but he thought it possible that some ice-cold water sprinkled on her face might revive her.

The Squire's Daughter |Silas K(itto) Hocking