snow up

English

Verb

snow up (third-person singular simple present snows up, present participle snowing up, simple past and past participle snowed up)

1. (UK, usually passive) To prevent (an event) from occurring due to snow
2. (UK, usually passive) To prevent (a person or thing) from leaving (a place) or using (a road or path) due to snow.
   • 1941 April, “Notes and News: Railwaymen and Snow”, in Railway Magazine, page 177:

     Midway between these stations a plough with two engines, which had been keeping the line open throughout the Sunday, became completely snowed up, and another engine sent from the Arrochar direction with men to assist in digging out the plough itself was caught in a drift south of Glen Douglas.

Anagrams

• owns up