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nipping
adjective as in biting
adjective as in cold
adjective as in cool
adjective as in shivery
Weak matches
- Siberian
- algid
- arctic
- below freezing
- below zero
- benumbed
- biting
- bitter
- blasting
- bleak
- boreal
- brisk
- brumal
- chill
- chilled
- chilly
- cool
- crisp
- cutting
- frigid
- frore
- frosty
- frozen
- gelid
- glacial
- have goose bumps
- hawkish
- hiemal
- hyperborean
- icebox
- iced
- icy
- inclement
- intense
- keen
- nippy
- numbed
- numbing
- one-dog night
- penetrating
- piercing
- polar
- raw
- rimy
- severe
- sharp
- sleety
- snappy
- snowy
- stinging
- two-dog night
- wintry
noun as in pinch
Example Sentences
Ratings-wise it is nipping at the heels of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”
Some polls now show the biggest of those groups, the Democratic Alliance, nipping at the heels of the party of Mandela for the first time, as local elections approach next year.
Pakistan had clear plans and executed them, constantly challenging England's fragile defences by nipping the ball into the right-handers.
Opinion polls suggest the SNP has a double digit lead over Labour, with Reform UK nipping at their heels, having pushed the Conservatives into fourth place.
Lowe said he grabbed a dishrag and tried to wave the smoke away from the smoke detector — only to have Moose start nipping at the rag and at his finger “aggressively.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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