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Adjective: frozen frowzun- Turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold
"the frozen North"; "frozen pipes"; "children skating on a frozen brook" - Absolutely still
"frozen with horror" - rooted, stock-still - Devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain
"a frozen look on their faces" - frigid, frosty, glacial, icy, wintry - Not thawed
- (used of foods) preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavour and nutritional value
"frozen foods" - flash-frozen, quick-frozen - Not convertible to cash
"frozen assets" - Incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. "frozen prices"
- fixed 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"
See also: cold, freezer, freezing, frostbitten, frost-bound, glaciated, icebound, ice-clogged, icy, nondisposable, nonmoving, preserved, sleety, unchangeable, unmelted, unmoving, unthawed Type of: act, alter, anaesthetise [Brit], anaesthetize [Brit, Cdn], anesthetise [Brit], anesthetize [N. Amer], behave, break, change, change state, do, interrupt, keep back, modify, put out, put under, solidify, stand still, suffer, turn, withhold Antonym: boil, unfreeze, unfrozen Encyclopedia: Freeze Freeze, The Frozen |