freeze
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~ suddenly behave coldly and formally; "She froze when she saw her ex-husband"
freeze
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~ change from a liquid to a solid when cold; "Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit"
freeze
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~ cause to freeze; "Freeze the leftover food"
freeze
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~ stop moving or become immobilized; "When he saw the police car he froze"
freeze
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~ change to ice; "The water in the bowl froze"
freeze
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~ be cold; "I could freeze to death in this office when the air conditioning is turned on"
freeze
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~ be very cold, below the freezing point; "It is freezing in Kalamazoo"
freeze
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~ stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it; "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country"
freeze
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~ prohibit the conversion or use of (assets); "Blocked funds"; "Freeze the assets of this hostile government"
flash-freeze
— Verb
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~ freeze rapidly so as to preserve the natural juices and flavors; "quick-freeze the shrimp"
freeze-dried
— Adjective
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~ used of tissue or blood or serum or other biological substances; dried by freezing in a high vacuum
freeze-dried
— Adjective
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~ preserved by freezing and drying in a vacuum; "freeze-dried coffee"
freeze
— Noun
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~ the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid
freeze
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~ weather cold enough to cause freezing
freeze
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~ fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level; "a freeze on hiring"
freeze-drying
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~ a method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes
freeze
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~ an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement; "a halt in the arms race"; "a nuclear freeze"
freezer
— Noun
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~ electric refrigerator (trade name Deepfreeze) in which food is frozen and stored for long periods of time
freezing
— Noun
– English
~ the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid