Antonyms for sleeted

Grammar : Adj, verb

Spell : sleet

Phonetic Transcription : slit

Definition of sleeted

Origin : c.1300, slete, either from an unrecorded Old English *slete, *slyte, related to Middle High German sloz, Middle Low German sloten (plural) "hail," from Proto-Germanic *slautjan- (cf. dialectal Norwegian slutr, Danish slud, Swedish sloud "sleet"), from root *slaut-.

As in icy : adj frozen; slippery when frozen
As in rain : verb drop water or other substance
As in shower : verb rain

Example sentences :

It rained, and sleeted, and then snowed, but the ground was too wet to hold the snow.
Extract from : « Tales of lonely trails » by Zane Grey

And what could be prettier, he said, than the woods after it sleeted all night, and hoar frost finished the job!
Extract from : « Old Caravan Days » by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

It had rained all day, except when it sleeted, and of course we were wet through, yet we dare not light a fire.
Extract from : « Camp Fire Yarns of the Lost Legion » by G. Hamilton-Browne

For the four days during which we were detained at this station it rained, sleeted, and snowed alternately and unceasingly.
Extract from : « Five Years in New Zealand » by Robert B. Booth

The road was a perfect glare of ice, and everything above ground was literally plated with sleeted frost.
Extract from : « The Old Pike » by Thomas B. Searight

Onward they went, leaning inward, treading slowly, and shot was sleeted at them from the windows.
Extract from : « An Arkansas Planter » by Opie Percival Read

The dividing line between snow and rain still was heavily marked, but it sleeted and our hands were quite numbed.
Extract from : « The Luck of Thirteen » by Jan Gordon

Well, late one evening that fall there came an early squall of Squaw winter, sleeted and spit snow wickedly.
Extract from : « The Outlet » by Andy Adams

Synonyms for sleeted

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