Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To pass from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
- intransitive verb To acquire a surface or coat of ice from cold.
- intransitive verb To become clogged or jammed because of the formation of ice.
- intransitive verb To be at that degree of temperature at which ice forms.
- intransitive verb To be killed or harmed by cold or frost.
- intransitive verb To be or feel uncomfortably cold.
- intransitive verb To become fixed, stuck, or attached by or as if by frost.
- intransitive verb To stop functioning properly, usually temporarily.
- intransitive verb To become motionless or immobile, as from surprise or attentiveness.
- intransitive verb To become unable to act or speak, as from fear.
- intransitive verb To become rigid and inflexible; solidify.
- intransitive verb To convert into ice.
- intransitive verb To cause ice to form upon.
- intransitive verb To cause to congeal or stiffen from extreme cold.
- intransitive verb To preserve (foods, for example) by subjecting to freezing temperatures.
- intransitive verb To damage, kill, or make inoperative by cold or by the formation of ice.
- intransitive verb To make very cold; chill.
- intransitive verb To immobilize, as with fear or shock.
- intransitive verb To chill with an icy or formal manner.
- intransitive verb To stop the motion or progress of.
- intransitive verb To fix (prices or wages, for example) at a given or current level.
- intransitive verb To prohibit further manufacture or use of.
- intransitive verb To prevent or restrict the exchange, withdrawal, liquidation, or granting of by governmental action.
- intransitive verb To anesthetize by chilling.
- intransitive verb Sports To keep possession of (a ball or puck) so as to deny an opponent the opportunity to score.
- noun The act of freezing.
- noun The state of being frozen.
- noun A spell of cold weather; a frost.
- noun A restriction that forbids a quantity from rising above a given or current level.
- idiom (freeze (someone's) blood) To affect with terror or dread; horrify.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Frost or its results; chilling or freezing conditions: as, there was a strong freeze last night.
- noun See
frieze . - To congeal; harden into ice; change from a fluid to a solid form by cold or abstraction of heat.
- To affect with frost; stiffen, harden, injure, kill, etc., by congealing the fluid portions of; hence, to produce some analogous effect in.
- As a knight of old, at the very moment when he would else have unhorsed his opponent, was often frozen into unjust inactivity by the king's arbitrary signal for parting the tilters.
- To chill with cold; produce the sensation of intense cold in.
- To be congealed by cold; be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; be hardened into ice or into a solid body by cold: as, water freezes at the temperature of 32° F.
- To be of that degree of cold at which water congeals: often used impersonally to describe the state of the weather: as, it is freezing tonight.
- To suffer the effects of intense cold; be stiffened, hardened, or impaired by cold.
- Figuratively, to be or become chilled; suffer greatly from the sensation of cold.
- To cause a sensation of great cold.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.), obsolete A frieze.
- noun colloq. The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The beginning, where all the children of Britain freeze, is nicely spooky, but then we cut to Gwen (Eve Myles) getting back to work.
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"Netanyahu needs to show that extending the freeze is a very, very difficult thing to do and it's going to cost him a lot, and if its going to cost him he will need some compensation," said a senior Israeli official.
U.S. Tries to Avert Mideast Impasse Charles Levinson 2010
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Naturally the credit industry, our close friends who care only that we are properly served a healthy portion of credit, think that such a freeze is a problem and consumers will not be happy.
06/21/2005 2005
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You enter this palace by four great portals, beautiful with sculptured figgers and ornaments, and as you go on in the colonnade you see beautiful paintin's illustratin 'the rise and progress of Art. And way up on the outside, on what they call the freeze of the buildin'
Samantha at the World's Fair Marietta Holley 1881
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Continuing the settlement "freeze" is a small but important first step in demonstrating to Palestinians the sincerity of the U.S. and Israel in achieving a peace agreement.
Osamah Khalil: Contradiction in Washington Prevents Peace in the Middle East Osamah Khalil 2010
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Continuing the settlement "freeze" is a small but important first step in demonstrating to Palestinians the sincerity of the U.S. and Israel in achieving a peace agreement.
Osamah Khalil: Contradiction in Washington Prevents Peace in the Middle East Osamah Khalil 2010
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Continuing the settlement "freeze" is a small but important first step in demonstrating to Palestinians the sincerity of the U.S. and Israel in achieving a peace agreement.
Osamah Khalil: Contradiction in Washington Prevents Peace in the Middle East Osamah Khalil 2010
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But a straight spending freeze is a blunt instrument that has no place in responsible budgeting.
Think Progress » Bayh Claims ‘There’s A Fighting Chance’ Obama Will Call For A Spending Freeze 2010
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The settlement freeze is a real sticking point here.
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The settlement freeze is a real sticking point here.
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‘Freeze peach’ is a well-known and well-used (dare I say, overused) term used to mock people who invoke ‘free speech’ in inappropriate contexts.
Freeze peach [Legit] 2024
SophiaNachalo commented on the word freeze
A definition of freeze is missing here. From Wikipedia: "Siamese twins (also irreversible binomials,1 binomials,1 binomial pairs, nonreversible word pairs,2 or freezes) in the context of the English language refer to a pair or group of words used together as an idiomatic expression or collocation, usually conjoined by the words and or or. The order of elements cannot be reversed." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siamese_twins_(linguistics)
September 4, 2017