different between wintry vs winterkill

English

Alternative forms

• wintery

Etymology

From Old English wintrig. Also constructed from winter +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w?nt(?)??/
• (General American) enPR: w?n?t(?-)r?, IPA^(key): /?w?nt(?)?i/, [?w???(?)?i]
• Rhymes: -?nt?i
• Hyphenation: win?try

Adjective

wintry (comparative wintrier, superlative wintriest)

1. Suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy.

   wintry weather

2. Of precipitation, containing sleet or snow.

   It will be cloudy overnight, with outbreaks of heavy rain at times. The rain may turn wintry over higher ground.

3. Aged, white-haired.
4. Chilling, cheerless.
   • 1934, Frank Richards, The Magnet, The Bounder's Folly

     He reached the old ruins at last, dim masses of moss-grown masonry in the glimmer of the wintry starlight.

   a wintry remark

Synonyms

• (suggestive or characteristic of winter): brumal, hibernal, hiemal

Derived terms

Translations

References

• wintry at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

English

Alternative forms

• winter-kill
• winter kill

Etymology

winter +? kill

Noun

winterkill (countable and uncountable, plural winterkills)

1. The mortality resulting from lethal wintry conditions among a human, animal, and/or vegetal population.

Related terms

Translations

Verb

winterkill (third-person singular simple present winterkills, present participle winterkilling, simple past and past participle winterkilled)

1. (transitive) To kill by the conditions of winter, especially the effect of the cold, freezing.
2. (intransitive) To die from the above effects of winter conditions.