freeze

freeze is a 6-letter English word with 20 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A frieze. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 18 · 20 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A frieze.
2. intransitive verb. 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.
3. intransitive verb. 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.
4. transitive verb. To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.
5. transitive verb. To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
6. noun. The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.
7. noun. fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level

   "a freeze on hiring"

8. noun. an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement

   "a halt in the arms race"

   "a nuclear freeze"

   Synonyms: halt

9. noun. weather cold enough to cause freezing

   Synonyms: frost

10. noun. the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid

    Synonyms: freezing

11. verb. suddenly behave coldly and formally

    "She froze when she saw her ex-husband"

12. verb. anesthetize by cold
13. verb. be cold

    "I could freeze to death in this office when the air conditioning is turned on"

14. verb. prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)

    "Blocked funds"

    "Freeze the assets of this hostile government"

    Synonyms: block, immobilise, immobilize

15. verb. stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it

    "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country"

    Synonyms: suspend

16. verb. change to ice

    "The water in the bowl froze"

17. verb. cause to freeze

    "Freeze the leftover food"

18. verb. change from a liquid to a solid when cold

    "Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit"

19. verb. stop moving or become immobilized

    "When he saw the police car he froze"

20. verb. be very cold, below the freezing point

    "It is freezing in Kalamazoo"

Synonyms

halt, frost, freezing, block, immobilise, immobilize, suspend

Common word forms

freezed, freezer, freezes, freezing

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