to freeze
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- verb
- /friz/
:
entumecerse
- It was so cold that I could feel my nose freeze when I stepped outside.
- freezing cold
Everyday you're lying there just freaking freezing and no sleep.
- Everyday you're lying there just freaking freezing and no sleep.
- Every day you're lying there just frigging freezing and no sleep.
- So I was freezing until we kind of got OK.
- My left hand is freezing and I've got my elbow on some corn dogs.
- Six people froze to death this week, taking odds against shelter.
- My toes are freezing, my arms freezing, my body, however, my core blazing hot.
- Bear Grylls show I did freeze and I peed over the fire.
Examples
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Oh, my God, it's so freezing here.
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But you must be freezing here.
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I thought I was gonna freeze to death.
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Let's get out of here before we all freeze to death.
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But it's freezing out there!
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Oh, it's freezing in here.
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I tried to shout, but my voice had frozen in my throat.
Fiction book (1993) -
I brought my feet down on the freezing-cold bare wood floor.
Fiction book (1990) -
The air in her lungs rushed out, moisture freezing in a cloud in the still air.
Fiction book (1993) -
It's cold, Anna, not the kind of cold you're used to, but I'm freezing all the same.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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Make a body part and the mind unable to feel, often by cold or medicine
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To make someone feel very cold or deeply frightened
Idioms
- Informal
To make your bottom very cold by sitting or staying outside in cold weather
Suddenly stop moving because you feel afraid or surprised
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Specialized
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Food with most water removed by freezing and drying so it keeps for a long time
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A rule that stops a company or government office from taking on new workers to save money
- Specialized
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An action that keeps prices at their current level for a set time to stop big price rises
- Specialized
A machine that keeps food or lab samples from spoiling by freezing and removing their water
- Specialized
A way to dry food or medicine by freezing it and removing the ice so it keeps its shape
- Specialized
A machine or process that makes food very cold quickly to keep its taste and vitamins
How Cold
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Freeze comes from an old word meaning 'to become cold', like frost, and cold makes skin and nerves go numb, so to freeze a tooth or skin is to make it very cold and numb.