Verb
The word is derived from freeze
of Freeze
imp. of Freeze.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAt 17, the first time I saw a dead body, I froze. By 31 it was a natural occurrence for me, and no group of people should live like that. Leymah Gbowee
For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me. Jack Kerouac
I froze in time! And I thought "My God......I'm free!" Arlo Guthrie
But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. Thomas Gray
From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose. Randall Jarrell
Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development. Georges Cuvier