To convert into ice or a glacier, or to cause to become covered with glaciers.
From glacier combined with the suffix -ize meaning 'to cause to become.' A technical term describing the geological process of glaciation.
When we glacialize a region through climate change (the opposite of deglaciation), we're literally reversing millions of years of planetary warming—it's a massive geological transformation!
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