freeze

Speech parts

1. freeze - Noun

2. freeze - Verb

3. Freeze - Proper noun

Meaning

A frieze.

To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.

To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins.

To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.

To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.

The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

halt immobilize block suspend solidify immobilise frost hold stop freezing seize hang crystallize stiffen coagulate
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Antonyms

unfreeze boil defrost fry frizzle free
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Hypernyms

change act turn break cooling suffer

Hyponyms

frost ice icing fixate freeze-drying deep-freeze

Phrases with the word

until the cows freeze over freeze your blood freeze-proof freeze point ready-to-freeze killing freeze

Derivatives

froze frozen freezing

Examples

I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame. Anthony Quinn

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. Pearl S. Buck

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze. Albert Pike

It takes more than one cold day for a river to freeze three feet deep. Chinese Proverb

True friendship does not freeze in the winter. German Proverb

Eat till you sweat and work till you freeze. Romanian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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