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Verb: freeze (froze,frozen) freez- Change to ice
"The water in the bowl froze" - Stop moving or become immobilized
"When he saw the police car he froze" - stop dead - Be cold
"I could freeze to death in this office when the air conditioning is turned on" - Cause to freeze
"Freeze the leftover food" - Stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
- suspend - Be very cold, below the freezing point
"It is freezing in Kalamazoo" - Change from a liquid to a solid when cold
"Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit" - freeze out, freeze down - Prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)
"Freeze the assets of this hostile government" - block, immobilize, immobilise [Brit] - Anesthetize by cold
- Suddenly behave coldly and formally
"She froze when she saw her ex-husband" Noun: freeze freez- The withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid
- freezing - Weather cold enough to cause freezing
- frost - An interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement
"a nuclear freeze" - halt - Fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level
"a freeze on hiring"
Sounds like: frieze, frees Derived forms: freezing, freezes, froze, frozen See also: freezer Type of: act, alter, anaesthetise [Brit], anaesthetize [Brit, Cdn], anesthetise [Brit], anesthetize [N. Amer], behave, break, change, change state, chilling, cold weather, cooling, do, interrupt, keep back, limitation, modify, pause, phase change, phase transition, physical change, put out, put under, restriction, solidify, stand still, state change, suffer, temperature reduction, turn, withhold Antonym: boil, unfreeze Encyclopedia: Freeze Freeze, The |