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Freeze   /friz/   Listen
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



... slightly drooping, like the moon on a border of the night; her bosom like the swell of the sea in moonlight; her eyes dark, under a low arch of darker lashes, like stars on the skirts of storm; and she was the very dream of loveliness, formed to freeze with awe, and to inflame with passion. So Shibli Bagarag gazed at her with adoration, his hands stretched half-way to her as if to clasp her, fearing she was a vision and would fade; and the damsel smiled a sweet smile, and lifted her ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... the skin and quartered the carcass. These he loaded upon his toboggan and hauled to his tilt. The meat was suspended from the limb of a tree outside, where animals could not reach it and where it would freeze and keep sweet until needed. A small piece was taken into the tilt for immediate use, and some portions of the neck placed in the corner of the tilt where they would decompose somewhat and thus be rendered into desirable fox bait. The ...
— Ungava Bob - A Winter's Tale • Dillon Wallace

... nepi, has not before been noticed. This proves the association of ideas on which I lay so much stress in mythology. A somewhat similar relationship exists in the Aztec and cognate languages, miqui, to die, micqui, dead, mictlan, the realm of death, te-miqui, to dream, cec-miqui, to freeze. Would it be going too far to connect these with metzli, moon? (See Buschmann, Spuren der Aztekischen Sprache im Noerdlichen Mexico, ...
— The Myths of the New World - A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America • Daniel G. Brinton

... little pigmy lives, doing pigmy kindnesses and pigmy cruelties each to the other; they might even perhaps attain a sort of pigmy millennium, make an end to war, make an end to over-population, sit down in a world-wide city to practise pigmy arts, worshipping one another till the world begins to freeze...." ...
— The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth • H.G. Wells

... nobody but an Eskimo wearing his furs and winter under-clothing could have withstood the iciness of her manner; but the Brute did not freeze. ...
— The Man Upstairs and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse


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