Word Finder - frozen

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Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.

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The lake froze solid.

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To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.

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Don't freeze meat twice.

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To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.

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It didn't freeze this winter, but last winter was very harsh.

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To be affected by extreme cold.

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Don't go outside wearing just a t-shirt; you'll freeze!

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(of machines and software) To come to a sudden halt, stop working (functioning).

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Since the last update, the program freezes / freezes up after a few minutes of use.

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(of people and other animals) To stop (become motionless) or be stopped due to attentiveness, fear, surprise, etc.

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Despite all of the rehearsals, I froze up as soon as I got on stage.

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To cause someone to become motionless.

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To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.

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Over time, he froze towards her, and ceased to react to her friendly advances.

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To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.

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To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets

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The court froze the criminal's bank account.

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Of prices, spending etc., to keep at the same level, without any increase.

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Having undergone the process of freezing; in ice form.

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The mammoth has been frozen for ten thousand years.

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Immobilized.

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I just stood frozen as the robber pointed at me with his gun.

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(of a bank account or assets) In a state such that transactions are not allowed.

She stood frozen, searching for him.

I can cross the frozen tundra.

She stood, frozen with fear as his dark figure moved past her.

You look half frozen to death.

He dropped to his knees and wiped messily at the snot streaming from his nose and the tears frozen to his cheeks.

It was frozen, but it would soon thaw in this heat.

Once I went on a visit to a New England village with its frozen lakes and vast snow fields.

Bianca took one cautious step onto the frozen waves.

Lisa stared at the bowl, the liquid frozen half way up her throat.

No more searching for frozen half-tires in the snow and stomping the water out of them.

During the winter the river is frozen.

Deidre sat frozen, aware of their concerned gazes.

We've never frozen immortals before.

Baked by day and frozen by night.

The sight of him struck her like a frozen water balloon.

She couldn't stand, not with her frozen body, and she rolled onto her back, out of the water.

She still had some meat in her freezer, as well as some frozen colostrum.

Frozen water pipes and unheated bedrooms had to be something new for a wealthy socialite.

Much later, in the darkest part of the night, Dean's mind was creating picture stories to amuse itself while his body lay in frozen and unmoving slumber like a fallen mannequin.

Jessi sat frozen, unable to fathom that the simple red gem was capable of such magic.

The Guardians had frozen in mid-speech and were looking toward the mansion.

In spite of the cold, I try to open the window to rid this room of the smoke and whiskey breath of those who visited here, but the frame is frozen fast.

The rivers are frozen from Dec. to Feb.

I have noticed that a portion of Walden which in the state of water was green will often, when frozen, appear from the same point of view blue.

Frozen beef is also sent to England.

At intervals the trees lost their icy covering, and the bulrushes and underbrush were bare; but the lake lay frozen and hard beneath the sun.

Why is it that a bucket of water soon becomes putrid, but frozen remains sweet forever?

Two weeks passed and I'd put Howie Abbott from my mind when Betsy called one evening as I heated a frozen dinner in my lonely apartment.

Everyone and everything around them had frozen in mid-movement, like an eerie sculpture garden.

Her mouth opened in a frozen scream as the burning pain paralyzed her.

They're not much for dancing, but they are a must for climbing frozen water!

Three Others with glowing purple eyes stood several feet away, frozen in surprise.

We started tossing stuff in the blender with frozen blood.

Unfortunately all the rivers are frozen for many months every year.

Fitzstephen tells how, when the great marsh that washed the walls of the city on the north (Moorfields) was frozen over; the young men went out to slide and skate and sport on the ice.

In the winter of1813-1814the Thames was again frozen over.

These frozen metals in general form compact masses consisting of aggregates of crystals belonging to the regular or rhombic or (more rarely) the quadratic system.

The metals to be referred to are always understood to be given in the compact (frozen) condition, and that, wherever metals are enumerated as being similarly attacked, the degree of readiness in the action is indicated by the order in which the several members are named - the more readily changed metal always standing first.

A small sphere of the fluid, if frozen suddenly, would retain this angular velocity.

Probably no extinct animal has left such abundant evidence of its former existence; immense numbers of bones, teeth, and more or less entire carcases, or " mummies," as they may be called, having been discovered, with the flesh, skin and hair in situ, in the frozen soil of the tundra of northern Siberia.

Pursuing his irresistible march, Charles X., with his eyes fixed steadily on Copenhagen, resolved to cross the frozen Great Belt also.

About the same time a war was fought in northern Europe (1655-60), celebrated chiefly for the three days' battle of Warsaw (28th, 29th, 30th July 1656), and the successful invasion of Denmark by the Swedes, carried out from island to island over the frozen sea (February 1658), and culminating in a long siege of Copenhagen (1658-59).

The 1 Marshal Luxemburg, who was left in command of the army in Holland during the winter of 1672-73, had indeed made a bold attempt to capture Leiden and the Hague by marching a corps, from Utrecht across the frozen inundations.

During the rapid formation of ice the still unfrozen brine is often imprisoned between the little plates of frozen water; hence without some special treatment sea-ice is not suitable as a source of drinking water.

After long continued frost the last of the included brine may be frozen and the salts driven out in crystals on the surface; these crystals are known to polar explorers by the Siberian name of rassol.

The influence of wind and tide breaks up the frozen surface of the sea, and sheets yielding to the pressures slide over or under one another and are worked together into a hummocky ice-pack, the irregularities on the surface of which, caused by repeated fractures and collisions, may be from 10 to 20 ft.

The miners are protected by the frozen wall, which may be 4 or 5 ft.

During the months of December, January and February the rivers are frozen up, and even the Gulf of Chih-li is fringed with a broad border of ice.

Boston Harbor has been frozen over in the past, but steamtugs plying constantly now prevent the occurrence of such obstruction.

Its greatest breadth within the town is from 80 to 90 yards, and it is usually frozen from November to March.