Freeze

Quick meaning: Freeze is a verb meaning (intransitive, copulative) Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.

Meaning

(intransitive, copulative) Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.
2. (intransitive) To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.
3. (intransitive, informal) To be affected by extreme cold.
4. (intransitive, computing, software, idiomatic) Of a machine or system, to come to a sudden halt, to stop working (functioning).
5. (intransitive, idiomatic) Of a person or other animal, to stop (become motionless) or be stopped due to attentiveness, fear, surprise, etc.
6. (transitive) To cause someone to become motionless.
7. (figuratively) To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.

Example Sentences

The lake froze solid.

It's freezing in here!

Don't freeze meat twice.

It didn't freeze this winter, but last winter was very harsh.

Word Forms

• freezes
• freezing

Synonyms for freeze

Depending on context, synonyms include solidify, freeze up, hang, lock up, seize, seize up.

Antonyms for freeze

Common opposites include defrost, liquify, unfreeze, free, release, unblock.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include freeze out, frost, block, immobilize, suspend, halt.

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