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Freeze   /friz/   Listen
Freeze

verb
(past froze; past part. frozen; pres. part. freezing)
1.
Stop moving or become immobilized.  Synonym: stop dead.
2.
Change to ice.
3.
Be cold.
4.
Cause to freeze.
5.
Stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it.  Synonym: suspend.
6.
Be very cold, below the freezing point.
7.
Change from a liquid to a solid when cold.  Synonyms: freeze down, freeze out.
8.
Prohibit the conversion or use of (assets).  Synonyms: block, immobilise, immobilize.  "Freeze the assets of this hostile government"
9.
Anesthetize by cold.
10.
Suddenly behave coldly and formally.
noun
1.
The withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid.  Synonym: freezing.
2.
Weather cold enough to cause freezing.  Synonym: frost.
3.
An interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement.  Synonym: halt.  "A nuclear freeze"
4.
Fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level.



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"Freeze" Quotes from Famous Books



... easily swelled by the heat. In a hot climate, quicksilver is used, because it doesn't boil except at a heat much greater than the air ever gets, though it freezes easily; in a cold climate, they use alcohol because it doesn't freeze except at a degree of cold much colder than the atmosphere ever gets, though ...
— The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men • Francis William Rolt-Wheeler
... representative aboard that ship. We got a right to know what's going on. How come there's nothing about it in the papers? Only the big shots knowing about it and whispering among themselves? It's because they're trying to snag it all and freeze ...
— The Stowaway • Alvin Heiner
... the stem, I fix that for the beginning of my division where the surface of the liquor in the stem remains when the ball is placed in common distilled water, that is so cold that it just begins to freeze and shoot into flakes; and that mark I fix at a convenient place of the stem, to make it capable of exhibiting very many degrees of cold, below that which is requisite to freeze water: the rest of my divisions, both above and below this ...
— Micrographia • Robert Hooke
... cried Mr Brass. 'Our faculties must not freeze with grief. I'll trouble you for a little more of that, ma'am. A question now arises, ...
— The Old Curiosity Shop • Charles Dickens
... it watches the bed of the glorious dead, With their holy stars, by night. It watches the bed of the brave who have bled, And shall guard this ice-bound shore, Till the waves of the bay, where the Mayflower lay, Shall foam and freeze no more. ...
— Choice Specimens of American Literature, And Literary Reader - Being Selections from the Chief American Writers • Benj. N. Martin


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