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Meanings of gelid in English

Extremely cold.

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Usage of gelid in English
1
Fire made their gelid frames less able to bear the cold weather
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2
Under a grey sky, glooming to purple, the gelid water writhed nakedly.
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3
Upon its gelid surface I saw my own reflection, Bluebeard distorted.
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4
Marianne is now crying quietly, gelid tears streaming down her face.
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5
To one side the Malaz River flowed dark and gelid within its stone banks.
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6
His sandalled feet sank entirely beneath the quivering gelid surface.
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7
His thoughts crawled, gelid and viscous as if frozen themselves.
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8
The thought struck him like a twister of gelid wind.
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9
Fastow, on her left, regards Danielle with gelid, unpleasant eyes.
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10
Grinding glacier; gelid blood separating into red, yellow and clear.
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11
Moss glanced around uneasily, sensing a faint susurration, a delicate splintering of the gelid air.
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12
Even the flight attendant's smile is gelid when it falls on Sonia in her Muslim dress.
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13
Nait's bowels tightened in sudden gelid terror.
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14
Each was a gelid still-life unto itself.
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15
Dennis was positively gelid, identifying Verrill so beautifully when he'd never seen the man before in his life.
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16
Opposite, a single arc-lamp on the corner of Cypress Street cast a white, cheerless light on the gelid pavement.
Midnight
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