Freeze meaning

frēz

To be at that degree of temperature at which ice forms.

It may freeze tonight.

verb

To be killed or harmed by cold or frost.

They almost froze to death. Mulch keeps garden plants from freezing.

verb

To preserve (foods, for example) by subjecting to freezing temperatures.

verb

To freeze is defined as to become frozen, to make something frozen or to stop moving.

An example of to freeze is for water to turn into ice cubes.

An example of to freeze is for a child to suddenly stop when he sees his mother catching him steal a cookie.

verb

To become clogged or jammed because of the formation of ice.

The pipes froze in the basement.

verb

To be or feel uncomfortably cold.

Aren't you freezing without a coat?

verb

To become rigid and inflexible; solidify.

An opinion that froze into dogma.

verb

To pass from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.

verb

To acquire a surface or coat of ice from cold.

The lake froze over in January. Bridges freeze before the adjacent roads.

verb

To become fixed, stuck, or attached by or as if by frost.

The lock froze up with rust.

verb

To stop functioning properly, usually temporarily.

My computer screen froze when I opened the infected program.

verb

To become motionless or immobile, as from surprise or attentiveness.

I heard a sound and froze in my tracks.

verb

To become unable to act or speak, as from fear.

Froze in front of the audience.

verb

To damage, kill, or make inoperative by cold or by the formation of ice.

verb

To make very cold; chill.

verb

To immobilize, as with fear or shock.

verb

To chill with an icy or formal manner.

Froze me with one look.

verb

To stop the motion or progress of.

The negotiations were frozen by the refusal of either side to compromise; froze the video in order to discuss the composition of the frame.

verb

To anesthetize by chilling.

verb

To keep possession of (a ball or puck) so as to deny an opponent the opportunity to score.

verb

To convert into ice.

verb

To cause ice to form upon.

verb

To cause to congeal or stiffen from extreme cold.

Winter cold that froze the ground.

verb

To fix (prices or wages, for example) at a given or current level.

verb

To prohibit further manufacture or use of.

verb

To prevent or restrict the exchange, withdrawal, liquidation, or granting of by governmental action.

Freeze investment loans during a depression; froze foreign assets held by US banks.

verb

A spell of cold weather; a frost.

noun

A restriction that forbids a quantity from rising above a given or current level.

A freeze on city jobs; a proposed freeze on the production of nuclear weapons.

noun

The act of freezing.

noun

The state of being frozen.

noun

To be formed into ice; be hardened or solidified by cold.

verb

To become covered or clogged with ice.

verb

To be or become very cold.

verb

To become attached by freezing.

Wheels frozen to the ground.

verb

To die or be damaged by exposure to cold.

verb

To become motionless or fixed.

verb

To be made momentarily speechless or unable to move or act by a strong, sudden emotion.

To freeze with terror.

verb

To become formal, haughty, or unfriendly.

verb

To stick or become tight as a result of expansion from overheating, of increased friction due to inadequate lubrication or corrosion, etc.

verb

To cause to form into ice; harden or solidify by cold.

verb

To cover or clog with ice.

verb

To make very cold; chill.

verb

To remove sensation from, as with a local anesthetic.

verb

To preserve (food) by solidifying it through rapid refrigeration; quick-freeze.

verb

To make fixed or attached by freezing.

verb

To kill or damage by exposure to cold.

verb

To make or keep motionless or stiff.

verb

To frighten or discourage by cool behavior, unfriendliness, etc.

verb

To make formal, haughty, or unfriendly.

verb

To fix (prices, employment, an employee, etc.) at a given level or place by authoritative regulation.

verb

To stop consumer production or use of (a critical material), as in wartime.

verb

To make (funds, assets, etc.) unavailable to the owners.

verb

To suspend the production of (weapons, esp. nuclear weapons)

verb

A freezing or being frozen.

noun

A period of cold, freezing weather; a frost.

noun

To change from a liquid to a solid state by cooling or being cooled to the freezing point.

See abend.

(intransitive) Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.

verb

To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.

Don't freeze meat twice.

verb

(intransitive) To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.

It didn't freeze this winter, but last winter was very harsh.

verb

(intransitive, informal) To be affected by extreme cold.

It's freezing in here!

Don't go outside wearing just a t-shirt; you'll freeze!

verb

(intransitive) To become motionless.

verb

(figuratively) To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.

Over time, he froze towards her, and ceased to react to her friendly advances.

verb

To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.

verb

To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets.

The court froze the criminal's bank account.

verb

A period of intensely cold weather.

noun

A halt of a regular operation.

noun

(computing) The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.

noun

(curling) A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out.

noun

(specifically, in finance) A block on pay rises.

noun

Obsolete form of frieze.

noun

Origin of freeze

From Middle English fresen, from Old English frēosan (“to freeze”), from Proto-Germanic *freusaną (“to frost, freeze”), from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to frost, freeze”). Cognate with Scots frese (“to freeze”), West Frisian frieze (“to freeze”), Dutch vriezen (“to freeze”), Low German freren, freern, fresen (“to freeze”), German frieren (“to freeze”), Swedish frysa (“to freeze”), Latin pruīna (“hoarfrost”), Welsh (Northern) rhew (“frost, ice”), and Sanskrit प्रुष्व (pruṣvá, “water drop, frost”).

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