freeze

freeze has 20 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• n.. A frieze.
• v. i.. 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.
• v. i.. 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.
• v. t.. To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.
• v. t.. To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
• n.. The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.
• n.. fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level; "a freeze on hiring"
• n.. an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement; "a halt in the arms race"; "a nuclear freeze"
• n.. weather cold enough to cause freezing
• n.. the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid
• v.. suddenly behave coldly and formally; "She froze when she saw her ex-husband"
• v.. anesthetize by cold