What is the meaning of freeze?

noun

• The withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid.
  • synonyms: freezing
• Weather cold enough to cause freezing.
  • synonyms: frost
• An interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement.
  • usage: "a halt in the arms race"; "a nuclear freeze"
  • synonyms: halt
• Fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level.
  • usage: "a freeze on hiring"

verb

• Stop moving or become immobilized.
  • usage: "When he saw the police car he froze"
  • synonyms: stop dead
• Change to ice.
  • usage: "The water in the bowl froze"
• Be cold.
  • usage: "I could freeze to death in this office when the air conditioning is turned on"
• Cause to freeze.
  • usage: "Freeze the leftover food"
• Stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it.
  • usage: "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country"
  • synonyms: suspend
• Be very cold, below the freezing point.
  • usage: "It is freezing in Kalamazoo"
• Change from a liquid to a solid when cold.
  • usage: "Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit"
  • synonyms: freeze out, freeze down
• Prohibit the conversion or use of (assets. )
  • usage: "Blocked funds"; "Freeze the assets of this hostile government"
  • synonyms: block, immobilize, immobilise
• Anesthetize by cold.
• Suddenly behave coldly and formally.
  • usage: "She froze when she saw her ex-husband"