Freezing

Quick meaning: Freezing is an adjective meaning (literally) Suffering or causing frost.

Meaning

(literally) Suffering or causing frost.

More Meanings

1. (by extension, chiefly hyperbolic) Very cold.
2. (with above or below) The freezing point of water, zero degrees celsius.
3. Aloof, unfriendly.
4. (countable and uncountable) The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.
5. (countable, medicine) The action of numbing with anesthetics.
6. present participle and gerund of freeze

Example Sentences

The temp in the mountains may/can fall below freezing at this time of year.

Despite this, the average temperature at the surface [of Mars] is 50–60K below freezing, making it hard to imagine that any plants or animals could survive.

[…] and the sloping collection of fractured rocks—known as talus—that tumbled down from the quartzite bluffs during the repeated freezings and unfreezings of the last Ice Age.

Jeff unconsciously reached out to touch the pewter casket, but was intercepted by the mother. She whisked his hand away with freezing politeness and said simply, "He's gone now."

Word Forms

• freezings

Synonyms for freezing

Depending on context, synonyms include frosty, frigorific, ice-cold, icy, cutting, frost.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gelid, frigid, icy, cold, glacial, polar.

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