verb
- Stop moving or become immobilized.
- usage: "When he saw the police car he froze"
- Change to ice.
- usage: "The water in the bowl froze"
- synonyms: freeze
- Be cold.
- usage: "I could freeze to death in this office when the air conditioning is turned on"
- synonyms: freeze
- Cause to freeze.
- usage: "Freeze the leftover food"
- synonyms: freeze
- Stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it.
- usage: "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country"
- Be very cold, below the freezing point.
- usage: "It is freezing in Kalamazoo"
- synonyms: freeze
- Change from a liquid to a solid when cold.
- usage: "Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit"
- synonyms: freeze, freeze out, freeze down
- Prohibit the conversion or use of (assets. )
- usage: "Blocked funds"; "Freeze the assets of this hostile government"
- synonyms: freeze, block, immobilize, immobilise
- Anesthetize by cold.
- synonyms: freeze
- Suddenly behave coldly and formally.
- usage: "She froze when she saw her ex-husband"
- synonyms: freeze
adjective
- Turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold.
- usage: "the frozen North"; "frozen pipes"; "children skating on a frozen brook"
- Absolutely still.
- usage: "frozen with horror"; "they stood rooted in astonishment"
- synonyms: rooted, stock-still
- Devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain.
- usage: "a frigid greeting"; "got a frosty reception"; "a frozen look on their faces"; "a glacial handshake"; "icy stare"; "wintry smile"
- Not thawed.
- Used of foods. ( preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value)
- usage: "frozen foods"
- synonyms: flash-frozen, quick-frozen
- Not convertible to cash.
- usage: "frozen assets"
- (adj.) ().
- synonyms: fixed
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