'Freeze' definitions:
Definition of 'freeze'
(from WordNet)
noun
The withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid [syn: freeze, freezing]
noun
Weather cold enough to cause freezing [syn: freeze, frost]
noun
An interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement; "a halt in the arms race"; "a nuclear freeze" [syn: freeze, halt]
noun
Fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level; "a freeze on hiring"
verb
Stop moving or become immobilized; "When he saw the police car he froze" [syn: freeze, stop dead]
verb
Change to ice; "The water in the bowl froze" [ant: boil]
verb
Be cold; "I could freeze to death in this office when the air conditioning is turned on"
verb
Cause to freeze; "Freeze the leftover food"
verb
Stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it; "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country" [syn: freeze, suspend]
verb
Be very cold, below the freezing point; "It is freezing in Kalamazoo"
verb
Change from a liquid to a solid when cold; "Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit" [syn: freeze, freeze out, freeze down]
verb
Prohibit the conversion or use of (assets); "Blocked funds"; "Freeze the assets of this hostile government" [syn: freeze, block, immobilize, immobilise] [ant: free, release, unblock, unfreeze]
verb
Anesthetize by cold
verb
Suddenly behave coldly and formally; "She froze when she saw her ex-husband"
Definition of 'Freeze'
From: GCIDE
- Freeze \Freeze\ (fr[=e]z), n. (Arch.) A frieze. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Freeze'
From: GCIDE
- Freeze \Freeze\, v. t.
- 1. To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill. [1913 Webster]
- A faint, cold fear runs through my veins, That almost freezes up the heat of life. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- To freeze out, to drive out or exclude by cold or by cold treatment; to force to withdraw; as, to be frozen out of one's room in winter; to freeze out a competitor. [Colloq.]
- A railroad which had a London connection must not be allowed to freeze out one that had no such connection. --A. T. Hadley.
- It is sometimes a long time before a player who is frozen out can get into a game again. --R. F. Foster. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'Freeze'
From: GCIDE
- Freeze \Freeze\, v. i. [imp. Froze (fr[=o]z); p. p. Frozen (fr[=o]"z'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Freezing.] [OE. fresen, freosen, AS. fre['o]san; akin to D. vriezen, OHG. iosan, G. frieren, Icel. frjsa, Sw. frysa, Dan. fryse, Goth. frius cold, frost, and prob. to L. prurire to itch, E. prurient, cf. L. prna a burning coal, pruina hoarfrost, Skr. prushv[=a] ice, prush to spirt. ? 18. Cf. Frost.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Water freezes at 32[deg] above zero by Fahrenheit's thermometer; mercury freezes at 40[deg] below zero. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- To freeze up (Fig.), to become formal and cold in demeanor. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Freeze'
From: GCIDE
- Freeze \Freeze\, n. The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'freeze'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abide,
- anesthetize,
- anhydrate,
- appall,
- arrest,
- awe,
- balance,
- ballast,
- ban,
- be cold,
- be still,
- bedaze,
- benumb,
- besot,
- bite,
- bitter weather,
- blast,
- blast-freeze,
- bleak weather,
- blight,
- block,
- blunt,
- brake,
- brine,
- bring to,
- bring up short,
- change color,
- chatter,
- check,
- checkmate,
- chill,
- chloroform,
- coast,
- cold snap,
- cold wave,
- cold weather,
- coldcock,
- congeal,
- corn,
- counterbalance,
- cure,
- cut,
- cut short,
- dam,
- deaden,
- deadlock,
- debar,
- dehydrate,
- depth of winter,
- desensitize,
- desiccate,
- didder,
- dither,
- dope,
- draw rein,
- drive away,
- drive out,
- drug,
- dry,
- dry-cure,
- dry-salt,
- dull,
- eject,
- embalm,
- eternalize,
- eternize,
- etherize,
- evaporate,
- exclude,
- expel,
- firm,
- firm up,
- fix,
- force out,
- freeze out,
- freeze solid,
- freeze to death,
- freeze-dry,
- freezing weather,
- frost,
- frostbite,
- fume,
- funk,
- glaciate,
- glacify,
- go through,
- grow cold,
- grow pale,
- halt,
- hard winter,
- harden,
- have a chill,
- have goose pimples,
- hold,
- horrify,
- horripilate,
- ice,
- ice over,
- ice up,
- immobilization,
- immobilize,
- immortalize,
- irradiate,
- jerk,
- kayo,
- keep,
- keep alive,
- keep fresh,
- keep quiet,
- kipper,
- knock out,
- knock senseless,
- knock stiff,
- knock unconscious,
- KO,
- lay out,
- lie still,
- lose courage,
- lose heat,
- marinade,
- marinate,
- mark time,
- monumentalize,
- mummify,
- nail down,
- narcotize,
- nip,
- not breathe,
- not stir,
- numb,
- obtund,
- ostracize,
- pale,
- palsy,
- paralyze,
- peg,
- penetrate,
- perennialize,
- perish with cold,
- perpetuate,
- petrify,
- pickle,
- pierce,
- pin,
- pin down,
- preservatize,
- preserve,
- preserve from oblivion,
- pull up,
- put paid to,
- put to sleep,
- quake,
- quick-freeze,
- quiver,
- raw weather,
- refreeze,
- refrigerate,
- regelate,
- reject,
- remain,
- remain motionless,
- repose,
- rest,
- retain,
- salt,
- scare stiff,
- scare to death,
- season,
- set,
- shake,
- shiver,
- shock,
- shudder,
- smoke,
- smoke-cure,
- snap,
- solidify,
- stabilitate,
- stabilize,
- stalemate,
- stall,
- stand,
- stand fast,
- stand firm,
- stand still,
- stay,
- stay put,
- steady,
- stem,
- stem the tide,
- stick,
- stick fast,
- stiffen,
- stop,
- stop cold,
- stop dead,
- stop short,
- strike dumb,
- strike terror into,
- stuff,
- stun,
- stupefy,
- subzero weather,
- take alarm,
- take fright,
- tarry,
- terrify,
- transfix,
- tread water,
- tremble,
- turn color,
- turn pale,
- winter,
- wintry weather,
- wintry wind,
- zero weather