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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

... "I never could write. I know what ought to be said, and I could say it to any one; but my ideas freeze in the pen, cramp in my fingers, and make my brain seem like heavy bread. I was born for extemporary speaking. Besides, I think the best things on all subjects in this world of ours are said, not by the practical workers, ...

— Household Papers and Stories • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... lighted, the bell rung, and soon the occupants of the dormitories began to make their appearance, shivering,—and so indeed was I—for it was a cold morning, twenty degrees below Zero, or thereabouts: the smoke seemed to freeze in the chimney, the window panes were caked with ice, and nearly everything in the house frozen solid. It was just as well that the porridge had been made over-night, even though it was frozen; a little hot water soon brought ...

— Missionary Work Among The Ojebway Indians • Edward Francis Wilson

... made. None of your eastern imitations, but a ninety-mile wind that whets slivers of ice off the frozen drifts all the way down from the North Pole. Only one good thing about a blizzard—it's over in a hurry. You get to shelter or you freeze to death." ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1920 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... in a voice that seemed to him not his own, while her voice appeared to him to come out of some far-off cave of the past. The cold frosty air received him as he stepped from the door, and its breath was friendly. If the winter would only freeze him to one of its icicles, and still that heart of his which would go on throbbing although there was no reason for it to throb any more! Yet had he not often found her different from what he had expected? And might not this be only one of her ...

— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald

... designs, he debated for a second whether it would not be the best thing to leave the detective on the ice, and let him freeze to death, but the publicity of the place, its proximity to the city, and the risk of having been shadowed by the man whom he had caught gazing through the window, caused him to think of some secure place wherein to put the senseless Chip. He first searched the wounded man's pockets, and, ...

— Jim Cummings • Frank Pinkerton

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