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(of temperatures) approaching, at, or below the freezing point.

extremely or uncomfortably cold; chilled: We were both freezing and welcomed the hot cocoa.

beginning to freeze or partially frozen; in the process of being or becoming frozen.

Origin:
1605–15; freeze + -ing²

Related forms

freez·ing·ly, adverb

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a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

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And remember: the idea of freezing is to prolong the life of food that you're going to eat, not to postpone discarding it.

Many are freezing salaries and stopping or slowing new hires.

Spain went in for the kill, slashing spending and freezing pensions.

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And remember: the idea of freezing is to prolong the life of food that you're going to eat, not to postpone discarding it.

Many are freezing salaries and stopping or slowing new hires.

Spain went in for the kill, slashing spending and freezing pensions.

Wood frogs can weather winter's ups and downs by literally freezing and thawing in step with fluctuating temperatures.

Before descending into a long winter's nap, a mammal's body temperature falls to near freezing.

The freezing of motion has a long and fascinating history in photography, whether of sports, fashion or war.

Freezing blackberries isn't difficult, but there are a few techniques involved.

The reports say that the units are simply freezing and won't respond to anything.

Too much alcohol can prevent ice cream from freezing at all.

Says it's freezing cold, but it cleared up his allergies.

Overnight temperatures in the area are below freezing.

Braving icy winds, freezing temperatures and starvation.

In fact heat must be continually removed from the freezing water or the freezing process will stop.

And cold, strangely, unnervingly cold: she was freezing under the hospital blankets.

In cold-winter areas, grow in containers or mulch to protect from freezing and thawing.

Freezing was official when sensors picked up an electrical signal created by ice formation.

In the winter it lives in the garage, where it gets plenty of light and where the temperature is never below freezing.

Firstly, the pregnant woman shouldn't had been there been pregnant and in that freezing cold.

Governments deserve much of the blame for freezing the unions' mentality in the confrontational mode.

Emperor penguin parents overcome starvation, freezing weather, and hungry leopard seals to keep their chicks well fed.

Speed is crucial for freezing foods without damaging their texture.

The high sugar content of jams and preserves keeps the fruit from freezing rock-hard in this yummy treat.

Those in colder climates frequently have to risk freezing themselves to warm up their cars.

Ettinger's idea of freezing the dead for future reanimation spawned what some refer to as the cryonics movement.

There are other forms of freezing out, bullying, and creating factions.

Trucks bump along its cracked and undulating surface, which is being ravaged by the freezing and thawing of the tundra beneath.

But scientists have long known that the freezing process creates ice crystals, which destroy cells and cellular structures.

Don't see how anyone can look at that x-ray and claim to see water freezing.

Large succulents do best in frost-free areas but may tolerate a few degrees below freezing.

The temperatures dipped below freezing and the frigid winds were gusting.

The late growth will be too immature to withstand freezing temperatures.

It wasn't below zero but it was well below freezing.

They show a surface broken into polygonal slabs by repeated freezing and thawing of the sort that happens above permafrost.

The pangolin will then be de-scaled and gutted for freezing and shipping.

The airplane-induced freezing works by the forced-cooling process.

Prolonged exposure to freezing weather is more damaging than a brief plunge in temperature.

BioTime deals in ultra-profound hypothermia, the body's last stop before freezing.

Freezing temperatures have forced farmers to water crops all night in the nation's winter strawberry capital.

Someone also wrote about freezing adminstrative costs and raising fees.

The chancellor appears tacitly to have acknowledged this by freezing duties on hand-rolling tobacco in this year's budget.

It's rough terrain, and temperatures are already well below freezing.

These liquid water droplets can be sustained as liquid below the freezing point.

Winter mulch keeps the ground solidly frozen and prevents freezing and thawing cycles that can kill plant roots.

They're applying that insight by freezing a calcium sludge into.

They knew about ice and snow and the danger of freezing to death, but no one had thermometers.

One had snow the whole time, the other freezing rain.

He took a series of harrowing photographs of ragged men who look as if they are freezing to death.

Antarctica's freezing land has little life, but its waters are full of specially adapted plants and animals.

But, given the darkness, freezing temperatures and crushing.

Actually, the winters are so mild here that lows seldom fall below freezing.

Freezing produces ice, the crystalline form of water.

Princeton-based researchers broke the encryption system by freezing memory chips, permitting them to read the software.

What was once a frozen conflict is in danger of freezing over again.

Perhaps as a consequence of the weather-sweltering in summer, freezing in winter-Chicagoans have a.

Some of them live in scalding hot temperatures and others live in freezing below zero temperatures.

Very good for eating fresh, for jam, and for freezing.

As you might imagine, with the vagaries of the freezing process, no two instruments are quite the same.

The bottles have no necks, because a neck causes the freezing liquid to push downward and rupture the bottom.

Numerous governments are planning to deal with their rising deficits by freezing public-sector pay.

In this case, the conundrum is how to keep your water from freezing in the narrow tube between your pack and the mouthpiece.

Because if you have salt water you can actually go down degrees further without the water freezing it.

When you have an abundance of fresh avocados, consider freezing them.

Both say they figure that cooking or freezing will eliminate any toxins.

Freezing the embryo in liquid nitrogen for storage or shipment completes the process.

Cycles of hot and freezing weather are leading to unstable snow fields and a rising number of violent avalanches.

The amygdala evaluates the significance of a potential threat and triggers emotional responses such as freezing or fleeing.

My office is freezing right now, so a toasty beverage is particularly appealing.

The scientists still don't know what biochemical tricks the octopuses use to keep their venom working at freezing temperatures.

Tetrodotoxin can result in serious illness or death, and it cannot be destroyed by cooking or freezing.

They moved rocks, dug in mud, and waded in freezing streams.

Along the way he has been freezing some of the bacteria.

Steam pours forth-some kind of freezing agent, subliming in the humidity from all those greasy.

Though snowflakes flutter past, freezing rain and ice build up on the cables, which naturally vibrate.

Steve and his crew wait in the freezing arctic cold for a beautiful arctic fox to climb out of his den.

They can even tolerate snow and temperatures under freezing.

The report mentions that election staff had trouble with the server crashing and freezing on election night.

At its top, the temperature has risen back nearly to freezing.

Which is why the big problem with space suits is overheating, not freezing.

Instant hand warmers kept things from freezing up and made sure the batteries stayed warm enough to work.

Pockets of tundra blend into birch and spruce, dwarfed by blasts of freezing air.

As a result of global warming, hot areas are being getting more hotter and cold areas are being getting more freezing.

Sea water provides a relatively constant thermal environment: water which never drops below freezing.

Emperor penguins in the thousands brave icy winds, freezing temperatures, and starvation in this incredible true.

My biggest concern in this whole ideal is dealing with freezing in the winter.

The video player is weak and prone to freezing the picture if you adjust the volume mid-video.

It's a pretty common practice to light a bonfire beneath the fuel tank to keep it from freezing.

Some states are waiving or lowering building permit fees for solar and freezing taxing for the first years.

When freezing up your ice, place the molds on a cookie sheet or other flat surface to help keep them even.

The void is freezing by night and scorching by day and wind-scoured always.

On the positive side, fewer people will die from freezing temperatures and agricultural yield will increase in colder areas.

Once the ice is gone, the warm water can't get out of it's own way and freezing starts again.

The vapor will also have a negative impact in parts of the country that spend months in freezing cold, think frozen highways.

The constant motion of ocean water resists deep freezing as well as heating.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used without object)

to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.

to become hard or stiffened because of loss of heat, as objects containing moisture: Meat will freeze in a few hours.

to suffer the effects of intense cold; have the sensation of extreme cold: We sat there freezing until the heat came on.

to be of the degree of cold at which water freezes: It may freeze tonight.

to lose warmth of feeling; be stunned or chilled with fear, shock, etc.: My heart froze when she told me the news.

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to become immobilized through fear, shock, etc.: When he got in front of the audience he froze.

to stop suddenly and remain motionless; halt: I froze in my tracks.

to become obstructed by the formation of ice, as pipes: Our basement water pipes often freeze in winter.

to die or be injured because of frost or cold.

10.

(of a screw, nail, or the like) to become rigidly fixed in place, as from rust or dirt.

11.

to become fixed to something by or as if by the action of frost.

12.

to become unfriendly, secretive, or aloof (often followed by up): He froze at such a personal question.

13.

to become temporarily inoperable; cease to function (often followed by up): The new software made my computer freeze.

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verb (used with object)

14.

to harden into ice; change from a fluid to a solid form by loss of heat; congeal.

15.

to form ice on the surface of (a river, pond, etc.).

16.

to harden or stiffen (an object containing moisture) by cold.

17.

to quick-freeze.

18.

to subject to freezing temperature; place in a freezer or in the freezing compartment of a refrigerator.

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19.

to cause to suffer the effects of intense cold; produce the sensation of extreme cold in.

20.

to cause to lose warmth as if by cold; chill with fear; dampen the enthusiasm of.

21.

to cause (a person or animal) to become fixed through fright, alarm, shock, etc.: Terror froze him to the steering wheel.

22.

to kill by frost or cold: A late snow froze the buds.

23.

to fix fast with ice: a sled frozen to a sidewalk.

24.

to obstruct or close (a pipe or the like) by the formation of ice: The storm had frozen the hydrant.

25.

to fix (rents, prices, etc.) at a specific amount, usually by government order.

26.

to stop or limit production, use, or development of: an agreement to freeze nuclear weapons.

27.

Finance. to render impossible of liquidation or collection: Bank loans are frozen in business depressions.

28.

Surgery. to render part of the body insensitive to pain or slower in its function by artificial means.

29.

Cards.

Canasta. to play a wild card on (the discard pile) so as to make it frozen.

Poker. to eliminate (other players) in a game of freezeout.

30.

to photograph (a moving subject) at a shutter speed fast enough to produce an unblurred, seemingly motionless image.

31.

Movies. to stop by means of a freeze-frame mechanism: You can freeze the action at any point.

32.

Sports. to maintain possession of (a ball or puck) for as long as possible, usually without trying to score, thereby reducing the opponent's opportunities for scoring.

33.

Ice Hockey. to hold (a puck) against the boards with the skates or stick, causing play to stop and forcing a face-off.

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noun

34.

the act of freezing; state of being frozen.

35.

Also called ice-up. Meteorology. a widespread occurrence of temperatures below 32°F (0°C) persisting for at least several days: A freeze is expected in the coastal areas.

36.

a frost.

37.

a legislative action, especially in time of national emergency, to control prices, rents, production, etc.: The government put a freeze on new construction.

38.

a decision by one or more nations to stop or limit production or development of weapons, especially nuclear weapons.

Verb phrases

39.

freeze on/onto, Informal. to adhere closely to; hold on; seize.

40.

freeze out, to exclude or compel (somebody) to withdraw from membership, acceptance, a position of influence or advantage, etc., by cold treatment or severe competition.

41.

freeze over, to coat or become coated with ice: The lake freezes over for several months each year.

Origin:
before 1000; (v.) Middle English fresen, Old English frēosan; cognate with Middle Low German vrēsen, Old Norse frjōsa, Old High German friosan (German frieren); (noun) late Middle English frese, derivative of the v.

Related forms

freez·a·ble, adjective

freez·a·bil·i·ty, noun

de·freeze, verb (used with object), -froze, -fro·zen, -freez·ing.

non·freez·a·ble, adjective

post·freeze, adjective

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pre·freeze, verb (used with object), -froze, -fro·zen, -freez·ing.

re·freez·a·ble, adjective

re·freeze, verb, -froze, -fro·zen, -freez·ing.

un·freez·a·ble, adjective

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Can be confused: freeze, frieze.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

freezing (ˈfriːzɪŋ)

—*adj*
	informal extremely cold

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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Word Origin & History

freeze

O.E. freosan "turn to ice" (class II strong verb; past tense freas, pp. froren), from P.Gmc. *freusanan (cf. O.N. frjosa, O.H.G. friosan, Ger. frieren "to freeze," Goth. frius "frost"), from P.Gmc. *freus-, equivalent to PIE base *preus- "to freeze," also "to burn" (cf. Skt. prusva, L. pruina "hoarfrost,"

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Welsh rhew "frost," Skt. prustah "burnt," Albanian prus "burning coals," L. pruna "a live coal"). Transitive sense first recorded 14c., figurative sense c.1400. Meaning "become rigid or motionless" first recorded 1848, in "Jane Eyre." Sense of "fix at a certain level, make non-transactable" is 1922. Archaic frore "frosty, frozen" can be found in poetry as late as Keats; it is from O.E. frorer, pp. of freosan. Freeze frame is from 1960, originally "a briefly Frozen Shot after the Jingle to allow ample time for Change over at the end of a T.V. 'Commercial.' " ["ABC of Film & TV," 1960].

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

freeze (frēz)
v. froze (frōz), fro·zen (frō'zən), freez·ing, freez·es

To pass from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
To make or become congealed, stiffened, or hardened by exposure to cold.

American Heritage

Science Dictionary

freeze

(frēz) Pronunciation Key
To change from a liquid to a solid state by cooling or being cooled to the freezing point.

Slang Dictionary

freeze (so) definition

tv.
to make it too cold for someone, usually by opening windows or through the use of air conditioning. (See also play freeze-out.) : Are you trying to freeze out everybody? Close the door.
tv.
to lock someone out socially. : They froze out the newcomers.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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