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glaciate, glaciates
1. To cover with ice, snow, or a glacier.
2. To become frozen and covered with glaciers.
3. To affect something by the action of a glacier, especially by erosion.
4. To freeze.
5. To produce glacial effects upon, as in the scoring of rocks, transportation of loose material, etc.

Glaciated rocks are those rocks whose surfaces have been smoothed, furrowed, or striated, by the action of ice.

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