(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Snow consists of a lot of soft white bits of frozen water that fall from the sky in cold weather.
In Mid-Wales six inches of ~ blocked roads...
They tramped through the falling ~.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
You can refer to a great deal of ~ in an area as the ~s.
...the first ~s of winter...
N-PLURAL
3.
When it ~s, ~ falls from the sky.
It had been ~ing all night.
VERB: it V
4.
If someone ~s you, they persuade you to do something or convince you of something by flattering or deceiving you. (AM INFORMAL)
I’d been a fool letting him ~ me with his big ideas.
VERB: V n
5.
see also ~ed in , ~ed under