Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
A frieze.
- 2intransitive 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.
- 3intransitive 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.
- 4transitive verb
To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.
- 5transitive verb
To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
- 6noun
The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.
- 7noun
fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level
"a freeze on hiring"
- 8noun
an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement
"a halt in the arms race"
"a nuclear freeze"
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- 9noun
weather cold enough to cause freezing
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- 10noun
the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid
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- 11verb
suddenly behave coldly and formally
"She froze when she saw her ex-husband"
- 12verb
anesthetize by cold
- 13verb
be cold
"I could freeze to death in this office when the air conditioning is turned on"
- 14verb
prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)
"Blocked funds"
"Freeze the assets of this hostile government"
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- 15verb
stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
"Suspend the aid to the war-torn country"
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- 16verb
change to ice
"The water in the bowl froze"
- 17verb
cause to freeze
"Freeze the leftover food"
- 18verb
change from a liquid to a solid when cold
"Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit"
- 19verb
stop moving or become immobilized
"When he saw the police car he froze"
- 20verb
be very cold, below the freezing point
"It is freezing in Kalamazoo"
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