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freeze English

Meaning freeze meaning

What does freeze mean?
Definitions in simple English

freeze Verb

— If you freeze something, you cool it until it becomes solid. Water freezes at 0°C. The chicken will go bad soon. We should freeze it and then we can cook it next week. — If you freeze, you feel very cold. I was freezing because I had forgotten my coat.

freeze Noun

— A freeze is a time when the temperature is cold. — A freeze is when the usual way things are done is stopped.

freeze

— verb change to ice The water in the bowl froze — verb stop moving or become immobilized When he saw the police car he froze — verb be cold I could freeze to death in this office when the air conditioning is turned on — verb (= suspend) stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it Suspend the aid to the war-torn country — verb cause to freeze Freeze the leftover food — verb change from a liquid to a solid when cold Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit — verb anesthetize by cold — verb (= block) prohibit the conversion or use of (assets) Blocked funds Freeze the assets of this hostile government — verb suddenly behave coldly and formally She froze when she saw her ex-husband — noun the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid — noun weather cold enough to cause freezing — noun (= halt) an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement a halt in the arms race a nuclear freeze — noun fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level a freeze on hiring — verb be very cold, below the freezing point It is freezing in Kalamazoo

Synonyms freeze synonyms

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freeze English » English

congeal frost solidify cold refrigerate freezing frozen coagulate ice stiffen curdle chill shiver become numb thicken stop petrify petrified immobilize immobilise ice up halt freeze out freeze down fix cool clot become solid be frozen over be cold very cold thick suspend stunned stop dead shudder set quick-freeze pin peg paralyze nip iciness ice over harden hang glaciation glaciate gelidity frozeness

Topics freeze topics

What do people use freeze to talk about?
States Quality Hot

Cold
Universe, creation Sky Weather

Snow, ice
Universe, creation World

Solid, liquid, gas
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Afraid
Physical actions Move Not moving

Stay, remain
States Quality Good Decay

Preserve
Person Life

Die

Conjugation freeze conjugation

How do you conjugate freeze?

freeze · verb

Examples freeze examples

How do I use freeze in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I can't wait for the pond to freeze so that I can ice skate with my cousins.
It may freeze next week.
Please freeze the fish and meat.
Patterns of freeze-up and breakup influence the distribution and number of seals, the polar bear's main prey.
I think it'll freeze tonight.
If you want to keep meat for long, freeze it.
Once thawed, do not freeze again and use right away. Cook well.
Should you always freeze fresh meat?
If you want to keep meat for a long time, freeze it.
Water will freeze at zero Celsius, right?
Freeze!
Don't cross your eyes or they'll freeze that way.
It might not freeze tonight.
The villagers tried to freeze us out.
My ears are going to freeze if I don't go in.
The stories that circulated about the old graveyard were contradictory, but nevertheless made your heart freeze.
With this jacket you will not freeze.

Movie subtitles

They taught me how to bury in in the snow so you won't freeze to death in the storms.
It's cold enough to freeze the icicles off an Eskimo.
Now he'll either freeze to death, or wolves'll get him.
Oh, good, then you can start a fire with sticks in case our feet freeze.
Please don't freeze me, Mrs. Wilkes.
Sometimes they're not completely covered, but they don't freeze.
I guess he'll freeze.
Come on. Freeze.
Freeze, get nutty from no oxygen, crash, break your neck.
Come on, let's get out of here before we all freeze to death.
Brother, you'll freeze your tonsils.
Some pretty tough hombres freeze right at the door.
Don't let me freeze.
It's so cold, it'll freeze your hooves off.
You go along laughing and singing like everybody else. - then suddenly, you freeze up like this, and for no reason.
How do they freeze it?
Well, shut my mouth and freeze my face.
We'll either have to bundle or freeze tonight.
At night the icy winds freeze rivers and lakes.
Freeze.
I'll give you some shots that'll freeze your face.
Greenhorns always freeze to the reins when the going gets tough.
Freeze, Bowers!
Of course, there isn't much in the freeze.
Freeze!
And I'll play you freeze out for the whole amount, pay after each hand.
Sam Winters came along and hauled me to jail just in time to keep me from getting kicked out to freeze.
Some of them, blimey, they freeze you.
They freeze me, too.
Whenever I have to sing before strangers, I just freeze up.
Tell me, if you freeze.
In its embrace let us burn or freeze.
Mr. Graham covers the Los Angeles area Where they hold a sales franchise For the deep freeze concern.
And a little bit sick of the deep freeze business.
Well, now that you found me again, H. how are things in the deep freeze business?

News and current affairs

The US offered various sweeteners to induce Israel to freeze its West Bank settlement construction for another 90 days.
If Europe conveys the impression that its friendship with America depends on who wins the US presidential elections, it is likely to freeze the transatlantic relationship for years.
After telling Americans how important government investment is for modern growth, he promised to freeze that spending for the next five years!
Then, in October 1994, the US and North Korea entered into the Agreed Framework to freeze North Korea's nuclear program.
Is he ready to maintain today's freeze on developing nuclear weapons and to assure that North Korea does not export, develop, or deploy ballistic missiles?
So the question now is what can China do to freeze--and, if possible, to reverse--North Korea's nuclear program.
Eventually, world pressure subsides and the freeze fails to materialize.
So long as Israeli soldiers control the occupied territories, the idea of a settlement freeze will not take root.
In fact, the demand for a settlement freeze is nothing more than a call to arms to a wide group of Israelis and their supporters to go and build on stolen Palestinian land.
The Shamir government would be defeated at the polls, and the incoming Labor government would declare a freeze on all settlement construction, even on buildings that had already been started.
In America, at least, 2006 is likely to be another year in which stagnant real wages freeze, or even erode, the living standards of those in the middle.
For starters, the roof is starting to collapse on the global housing bubble, as housing markets begin to freeze up not only in the United States, but also in many other countries, such as high-flying Spain.
The political options for stabilizing Iraq, and the whole region, as well as for securing a long-term freeze of Iran's nuclear program, have not yet been exhausted.
The fact that Greece nonetheless is effectively trying to destroy Golden Dawn - the parliament just voted to freeze the party's state funding - suggests that, in the end, most democracies will want to draw the line somewhere.
Such a freeze - guaranteed by an effective enforcement mechanism - would present an important opportunity to make progress in confidence-building.
Palestinians are caught in a Catch-22: if they insist on a settlement freeze, Israel preemptively begins to build new settlements.
Hamas believes that if Israel were to come under pressure and, for example, freeze settlement construction, Abbas's position would be strengthened.
Such a simple-minded budget policy as an across-the-board freeze in nominal budgets should be ended immediately.
An indefinite building freeze would lead to the immediate end of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's coalition government in Jerusalem, without giving Israel or Netanyahu anything tangible in return.
It should have been clear that Netanyahu would not extend the freeze.
The decisive question, however, will be whether it will be possible to freeze the Iranian nuclear program for the duration of the negotiations to avoid a military confrontation before they are completed.

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