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Frozen

adjective

1.

Turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold. "Frozen pipes" , "Children skating on a frozen brook"

2.

Absolutely still. Synonyms: rooted, stock-still. "They stood rooted in astonishment"

3.

Devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain. Synonyms: frigid, frosty, glacial, icy, wintry. "Got a frosty reception" , "A frozen look on their faces" , "A glacial handshake" , "Icy stare" , "Wintry smile"

4.

Not thawed.

5.

(used of foods) preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value. Synonyms: flash-frozen, quick-frozen.

6.

Not convertible to cash.

7.

Incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g.. Synonym: fixed. "Living on fixed incomes"

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.

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"Frozen" Quotes from Famous Books

... shore, but the skater jumped the crack before it was wider than a man's hand and took the sled with him. They reached the river's edge before the ice began heaving and there the sloped snow had been wet and frozen to rocks and bushes, so they were able to make ...

— In the Days of Poor Richard • Irving Bacheller

... no one stirred—nothing stirred in all that frozen world. Then, feeling the cold begin to creep in upon him in the stillness, Kane had to lift his thick-gloved hands to chafe his ears. He did it cautiously, but the caution was superfluous. The great wolf apparently had no objection to his moving as much as he liked. Once, ...

— Kings in Exile • Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

... frozen world. Here the Winter, driven back into his stronghold, makes his last stand against the Summer, in perpetual conflict, retreating by day to the mountain-peak, but creeping back at night in frost and snow to regain a little of his lost territory, until at last the Summer is wearied out, and the ...

— Little Rivers - A Book Of Essays In Profitable Idleness • Henry van Dyke

... flute again, and was blowing a few deep notes out of it, thoughtfully enough. He was a small, squarely-built man, with a sharp ruddy face like a frozen pippin, heavy grey eyebrows, and a mouth like a trap when it was not pursed up for that everlasting flute. As he sat there with his wig off, the crown of his bald head was fringed with an obstinate-looking patch of hair, the colour of a ...

— Noughts and Crosses • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... Captain Brand had made a close inspection of the guns, and held sharp confabs with the men who rose to receive him, he moved away a few steps, and, resting his body against the lee side of a projecting rock, removed the cigar from his frozen lips, and said, ...

— Captain Brand of the "Centipede" • H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

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