of a liquid
: containing ice or cooled by ice or refrigeration
iced water
iced coffee
iced tea

Examples of iced in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Some drank iced teas, some beers, and some kept bottles of wine sitting on the edge of their tables at the ready. The Enquirer, 9 Apr. 2024 She was served a menu of more than a dozen dishes, including roast goose and barbecued pork, shrimp dumplings, iced sweet and sour pork and egg tarts. Lily Kuo, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024 While traditional homemade coffee is a simple process -- whether the pour-over method, stovetop or coffee machine pods -- the production of at-home iced coffee can be made easier by way of a variety of different at-home iced coffee machines. ABC News, 1 Apr. 2024 Contacto Café Social Club serves iced concoctions of blood-orange syrup, tonic and espresso in a small-but-friendly coffee shop. Laurence Blair, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024 Festival food includes sushi, spam musubi, gyoza, yakisoba, mochi, teriyaki chicken rice bowls, shave ice, cotton candy and bento boxes with pork cutlet, teriyaki salmon or sesame tofu, with iced coffee, boba drinks, beer, sake, plum wine, sodas and lemonade to wash it all down. Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2024 In Tompkins Square Park, cops near a cruiser were drinking iced coffee and smoking. Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2024 The collective obsession with iced coffee is still growing, even in the dead of winter. Peter C. Baker, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024 That both of us were in the car, waiting on my caramel cloud iced coffee, navigation set for a destination 2 1/2 hours away, sunglasses on, gas tank full, windshield clean, and both content is what was important. Susan Vollenweider, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1673, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of iced was in 1673

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“Iced.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/iced. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.

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