frost heave

1. 1.

   upthrust of ground or pavement caused by the freezing of moist soil

   Synonymsfrost heaving

   Broadergeological phenomenon

Questions about frost heave

What does frost heave mean?

frost heave means "upthrust of ground or pavement caused by the freezing of moist soil".

What is another word for frost heave?

Close synonyms include frost heaving. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is frost heave a common word?

frost heave is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.