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frostbite

[frawst-bahyt, frost-] / ˈfrɔstˌbaɪt, ˈfrɒst- /


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The claims, for which Homeland Security spent $96 million, show detainees were treated for a wide variety of conditions, including strokes, pregnancy, suicide attempts and frostbite.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

After hiding in a woodland near Carmarthen for three days without food or water, McKenna was arrested at Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, as he awaited medical treatment for suspected frostbite.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Eleven of the 12 men and boys who spoke to the BBC - including a 13-year-old - eventually lost limbs to frostbite.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

His wife had even begun to offer last rite prayers for his soul, she told AFP at the hospital in the capital Kathmandu, where he is recovering from "some frostbite" but is conscious.

From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026

It was a miracle she hadn’t gotten frostbite.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

"We are managing his frostbites, cold injuries, hydration and trauma. He is being further evaluated and will be in our ICU."

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026

Second-and third-degree frostbites are treated like burns; sometimes victims are hospitalized.

From Time Magazine Archive

We slept hour after hour, ate a little, tended our frostbites, inflammations, and bruises, mindspoke, slept again.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

The living wildlings Jon sent off to have their wounds and frostbites tended.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

So bitter was the cold that, though thus actively employed, the noses and cheeks of all the men were white by frostbites.

From Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold by William Henry Giles Kingston

In other words, “North Country” seems to be a waxing philosophical in the “True Detective” tradition, but the end-of-the-earth environs inspire thoughts that are tied more to Indigenous myths and frostbit hallucinations.

From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

“The Cro-Magnon” look, he calls it — wide forehead, frostbit eyes, a chin so square it must make mathematicians swoon.

From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2018

His frostbit ears are still sensitive today, 50 years later.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2017

“I didn’t bite you once! You can keep your underdrawers. Gawdalmighty, them pants is wet, ain’t they? You ain’t frostbit, are you?”

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

Next morning the ends of my toes were so frostbit by the extreme cold of the country, that I could no longer go barefooted.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

It appears that frostbiting has not changed much in 340 years.

From Time Magazine Archive

To the roaring fire set, frostbiting would seem a study in self-torture.

From Time Magazine Archive

"There are lots of fancy ideas about the motivation for starting frostbiting," says Knapp.

From Time Magazine Archive

We started facing a very keen, frostbiting wind.

From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Robert Falcon Scott

The teenager is wet, frostbitten and poorly dressed.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

Here on these frostbitten plains, the adults are tired and the children are stoic little beings who crunch around in the snow with the same hassles as everyone else.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025

“When you get down to people who get really frostbitten and really at risk of losing digits, it’s pretty uncommon,” Dr. Stockbridge said.

From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2024

One particular tale from “Chinese Menu” tells of how dumplings once apparently cured a village’s frostbitten ears.

From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2024

He was up to his old pranks, sending a group of frostbitten horsemen on a wild-goose chase all over Boston in search of nonexistent “bull’s wool” socks.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand


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