Freeze Definition
A halt of a regular operation.
- To affect with terror or dread; horrify:
a scream that froze my blood.
- to cling to; hold fast to
- to die out through freezing, as plants do
- to keep out or force out by a cold manner, by competition, etc.
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Freeze
- freeze (someone's) blood
- freeze (on) to
- freeze out
Origin of Freeze
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From Middle English fresen, from Old English frēosan (“to freeze”), from Proto-Germanic *freusaną (“to frost, freeze”), from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to frost, freeze”). Cognate with Scots frese (“to freeze”), West Frisian frieze (“to freeze”), Dutch vriezen (“to freeze”), Low German freren, freern, fresen (“to freeze”), German frieren (“to freeze”), Swedish frysa (“to freeze”), Latin pruīna (“hoarfrost”), Welsh (Northern) rhew (“frost, ice”), and Sanskrit प्रुष्व (pruṣvá, “water drop, frost”).
From Wiktionary
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Middle English fresen from Old English frēosan preus- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
See the above verb.
From Wiktionary
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