frostbite

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: frost=bite

CIDE DICTIONARY

frostbite, n. 

 The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body, as the ears, fingers, toes, or nose. Severe frostbite can lead to the loss of fingers or toes.  Kane.

frostbite, v. t. 

 To expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or nip with frost.  [1913 Webster]
"My wife up and with Mrs. Pen to walk in the fields to frostbite themselves."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

frostbite, n. injury to body tissues, esp. the nose, fingers, or toes, due to freezing and often resulting in gangrene.

THESAURUS

frostbite

Minamata disease, ache, aching, altitude sickness, anoxemia, anoxia, anoxic anoxia, anthrax, benumb, bite, black lung, caisson disease, chilblain, chilblains, chill, chilliness, chilling, cold creeps, cold shivers, creeps, cryopathy, cut, decompression sickness, dithers, duck bumps, freeze, frost, go through, goose bumps, goose pimples, gooseflesh, horripilation, immersion foot, itai, jet lag, kibe, lead poisoning, mercury poisoning, motion sickness, nip, numb, penetrate, pierce, pneumoconiosis, radiation sickness, radionecrosis, red-out, refrigerate, shivering, shivers, sunstroke, the bends, trench foot

ROGET THESAURUS

frostbite

Cold

N cold, coldness, frigidity, inclemency, fresco, winter, depth of winter, hard winter, Siberia, Nova Zembla, wind- chill factor, ice, snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift, sleet, hail, hailstone, rime, frost, hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost, barf, glaze, lolly, icicle, thick-ribbed ice, fall of snow, heavy fall, iceberg, icefloe, floe berg, glacier, nev_ee, serac, pruina, freezing mixture, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, liquid helium, chilliness, chill, shivering, goose skin, horripilation, rigor, chattering of teeth, numbness, frostbite, cold, cool, chill, chilly, icy, gelid, frigid, algid, fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching, clay-cold, starved, chilled to the bone, shivering, aguish, transi de froid, frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped, cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas, cool as a cucumber, cool as custard, icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose, wintry, brumal, hibernal, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal, hyperborean, hyperboreal, icebound, frozen out, unwarmed, unthawed, lukewarm, tepid, isocheimal, isocheimenal, isocheimic, frozen, numb, frost-bitten, coldly, bitterly, pierre fendre.