frost heaving

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsfrost heave

   Broadergeological phenomenon

Questions about frost heaving

What does frost heaving mean?

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

What is another word for frost heaving?

Close synonyms include frost heave. 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 heaving a common word?

frost heaving 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.