OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 9442

sleet

/sliːt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
perdigón de hielo
Pellets of ice made of mostly-frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes.
aguanieve • cellisca
Precipitation in the form of a mixture of rain and snow.
Though it never really snows it’s more like horizontal sleet
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 9443

sleet

/sliːt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cellisquear
To be in a state in which sleet is falling.
I won't bother going out until it's stopped sleeting.
It was dark, it was cold, it was sleeting - dreadful conditions for driving... perfect conditions for an accident.
Phrases
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