freeze
Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
Verb 4 meanings
Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
“The lake froze solid.”
To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.
“Don't freeze meat twice.”
To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.
“It didn't freeze this winter, but last winter was very harsh.”
To be affected by extreme cold.
“It's freezing in here!”
Noun 4 meanings
A period of intensely cold weather.
A halt of a regular operation.
“1983 October 3, Ted Kennedy, speech, Truth and Tolerance in America, Critics may oppose the nuclear freeze for what they regard as moral reasons.”
The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.
A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out.
Etymology
From Middle English fresen, from Old English frēosan (“to freeze”), from Proto-West Germanic *freusan, from Proto-Germanic *freusaną (“to freeze”), from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to freeze; frost”).
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FREEZE at a glance
FREEZE has 6 letters and scores 18 points in Scrabble (F 4 + R 1 + E 1 + E 1 + Z 10 + E 1) and 18 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,868 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with freeze
All rhymes- SQUEEZE25
- BREEZE17
- SNEEZE15
- FRIEZE18
- TRAPEZE18
- ANTIFREEZE22
- WHEEZE21
- UNFREEZE20
- JEEZE21
- REFREEZE20
- MEZE15
- TWEEZE18
One letter away
- BREEZE17
- FRIEZE18
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