freezingadjective, adverb
uk/ˈfriː.zɪŋ/us/ˈfriː.zɪŋ/B1 extremely cold:
It's freezing in here - can I close the window?
They survived for four hours in the freezing water.
After walking through the snow, my feet were freezing.
I had to wait for hours on the freezing cold station platform.
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- It's freezing cold today.
- So Roger spent the night in a freezing garage, did he? That'll teach him to go out without his house keys!
- Come in - you must be freezing out there!
- I haven't got my coat and I'm freezing.
- It was freezing as we walked home last night.
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Cold
- be (as) cold as ice idiom
- biting
- bitter
- bitterly
- bone-chilling
- chill
- cooling
- freeze
- frigid
- frigid zone
- frostbite
- ice-cold
- icy
- nip
- occluded front
- perished
- raw
- stone-cold
- windchill
- wintry
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freezingadjective
uk/ˈfriː.zɪŋ/us/ˈfriː.zɪŋ/turning to ice:
Freezing fog and icy patches are expected to cause problems for motorists tonight.
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- Mists, freezing fogs and snow are common in this area.
- Most of the country is experiencing unseasonal freezing temperatures and strong winds.
- A fierce, freezing wind whipped torrential rain into their faces.
- In these freezing conditions, the birds rely on householders for their food and water every day.
- Our faces were stung by the icy wind and freezing rain.
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Precipitation: snow & ice
- crevasse
- drift
- freeze
- frost
- frosty
- glacial
- glaciation
- ground frost
- hailstorm
- hoarfrost
- ice cap
- Jack Frost
- moraine
- pack ice
- permafrost
- slushy
- snow line
- snowdrift
- snowfall
- snowflake
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freezingnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈfriː.zɪŋ/us/ˈfriː.zɪŋ/also freezing pointthe temperature (0°C) at which water becomes ice:
The temperature was below freezing for most of the day.
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Miscellaneous units of measurement
- acre
- becquerel
- caloric
- calorific
- curie
- farad
- flashpoint
- Gy
- hectare
- horsepower
- kilohertz
- kilojoule
- lumen
- MHz
- millibar
- molal
- molar
- newton
- SI unit
- watt
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