freeze has definitions from the fields of politics,meteorology,chemistry,physics,pharmacology,surgery,food
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[ verb ] change to ice

Examples

"The water in the bowl froze"

Used in print

(W. H. Gass, "The Pedersen Kid," in The...)

`` The kid 's froze good .

Hans found him froze .

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[ verb ] stop moving or become immobilized

Synonyms

stop_dead

Examples

"When he saw the police car he froze"

Used in print

(Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)

Related to written literature , and often remaining temporarily frozen in written form , it loses its vitality when transcribed or removed from its oral existence .

(Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)

He ran on his plump sticks of legs , freezing now_and_again into the sudden startled attitudes which the camera had caught and held_on the paling photographs , all carefully placed and glued and labeled , resting in the fat plush album in the bottom drawer of the escritoire .

Related terms

stand_still fixate

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[ verb ] be cold

Examples

"I could freeze to death in this office when the air conditioning is turned on"

Used in print

(Richard Tiernan, "Land of the Silver Dollar,"...)

They must be freezing up there now .

Related terms

suffer suffer

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[ verb ] stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it

Synonyms

suspend

Examples

"Suspend the aid to the war-torn country"

Used in print

(The Christian Science Monitor,...)

Again_and_again it asked the Communists to `` freeze '' the military situation in Laos .

Related terms

interrupt pause

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[ verb ] (food) cause to freeze

Examples

"Freeze the leftover food"

Used in print

There is a trend to packaging meat at a central source , freezing it , and shipping it to outlying stores , where meat cutters will not be required .

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[ verb ] prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)

Examples

"Blocked funds" "Freeze the assets of this hostile government"

Related terms

unblock unblock withhold

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[ noun ] (chemistry,physics) the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid

Synonyms

freezing

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[ verb ] suddenly behave coldly and formally

Examples

"She froze when she saw her ex-husband"

Related terms

act

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[ noun ] an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement

Synonyms

halt

Examples

: "a halt in the arms race" "a nuclear freeze"

Related terms

pause stop

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[ verb ] change from a liquid to a solid when cold

Examples

"Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit"

Related terms

solidify physics

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[ verb ] (pharmacology,surgery) anesthetize by cold, as for certain surgical procedures

Related terms

anesthetize operation

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[ verb ] be very cold, below the freezing point

Examples

"It is freezing in Kalamazoo."

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[ noun ] (meteorology) weather cold enough to cause freezing

Synonyms

frost

Related terms

cold_weather frost

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 8141
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[ noun ] (politics) fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level

Examples

: "a freeze on hiring"

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