Freeze
Freeze (frēz) , noun
(Architecture) A frieze. [Obsolete]
Freeze (frōz) , intransitive verb
[Old English fresen, freosen, Anglo-Saxon freósan; akin to Dutch vriezen, Old High German iosan, German frieren, Icelandic frjsa, Swedish frysa, Danish fryse, Gothic frius cold, frost, and prob. to Latin prurire to itch, English prurient, compare Latin prna a burning coal, pruina hoarfrost, Sanskrit prushvā ice, prush to spirt. {not transcribed} 18. Compare 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.
Water freezes at 32° above zero by Fahrenheit's thermometer; mercury freezes at 40° below zero.
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.
Collocations (1)
To freeze up , to become formal and cold in demeanor. [Colloquial]
Freeze , transitive verb
1.
To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.
2.
To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
A faint, cold fear runs through my veins,
That almost freezes up the heat of life.
A railroad which had a London connection must not be allowed to freeze out one that had no such connection.
It is sometimes a long time before a player who is frozen out can get into a game again.
Freeze , noun
The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed. [Colloquial]