freezing
Meaning of freezing
adjective
- below 0°C.
strong winds and freezing temperatures
- the freezing point of water (0°C).
the temperature was well above freezing
- (with reference to a liquid) turn or be turned into ice or another solid as a result of extreme cold.
in the winter the milk froze
frost freezes water that has seeped into joints
- store (something) at a very low temperature in order to preserve it.
the cake can be frozen
- become suddenly motionless or paralysed with fear or shock.
she froze in horror
- hold (something) at a fixed level or in a fixed state for a period of time.
new spending on defence was to be frozen
Old English frēosan (in the phrase hit frēoseth ‘it is freezing’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vriezen and German frieren, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin pruina ‘hoar frost’ and frost.
Information about freezing
- The plural form of freezing is: freezings.
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Hyphenation of freezing
freez-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- freezing is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
freezing synonyms
Meaning freeze:
Meaning of or at a low or relatively low temperature, especially when compared with the human body:
Meaning chilly:
Meaning horrifying or frightening:
Meaning (of the weather) very cold, with frost forming on surfaces:
Meaning (used hyperbolically) very cold:
Meaning very cold; icy:
Meaning characteristic of winter, especially in feeling or looking very cold and bleak:
Meaning (of the weather) cold and damp; bleak:
Meaning (of wind or cold) so cold as to be painful:
Meaning (of wind or extreme cold) seeming to cut through one:
Meaning able to make a way through or into something:
Meaning (of the wind) bitterly cold:
Meaning having a sting; capable of wounding or piercing with a sting:
Meaning depriving one of feeling or responsiveness:
Meaning (of weather conditions) very cold:
Meaning relating to the North or South Pole:
Meaning relating to Siberia or its people:
Meaning relating to the Baltic Sea or the region surrounding it:
Meaning icy; extremely cold:
Meaning covered with frost:
Meaning situated around or inhabiting one of the earth's poles:
Meaning decorate (a cake or biscuit) with icing:
Meaning become or make less hot:
Meaning subject (food or drink) to cold in order to chill or preserve it, typically by placing it in a refrigerator:
Meaning treat (food) to prevent its decomposition:
Meaning (of an event, action, or process) come to an end; cease to happen:
Meaning fasten (something) securely in a particular place or position:
Meaning temporarily prevent from continuing or being in force or effect:
Meaning grasp, carry, or support with one's hands:
Meaning fix (a price, rate, or amount) at a particular level:
Meaning harden into a solid or semi-solid state:
Meaning set or serve as a limit to:
Meaning put a limit on; keep under control:
Meaning restrain or keep in check:
Meaning examine (something) in order to determine its accuracy, quality, or condition, or to detect the presence of something:
Meaning put a lid or cover on:
Meaning keep or restrict someone or something within certain limits of (space, scope, or time):
Meaning determine the behaviour or supervise the running of:
Meaning control or maintain the rate or speed of (a machine or process) so that it operates properly:
freezing antonyms
Meaning characterized by pleasantly warm weather:
Meaning (of ice, snow, or another frozen substance, such as food) become liquid or soft as a result of warming up:
Meaning make (someone or something) different; alter or modify:
Words that rhyme with freezing
zing, amazing, autoschediazing, bedazing, begazing, blazing, brazing, bumbazing, ceazing, crazing, dazing, deglazing, emblazing, fazing, feazing, frazing, gazing, glazing, grazing, hazing, imblazing, intermazing, lazing, mazing, outblazing, outgazing, overglazing, overgrazing, peazing, razing, reglazing, seazing, spreazing, stargazing, teazing, toazing, trailblazing, undazing, ungazing, upgazing, adzing, adfreezing, antifreezing, breezing, deepfreezing, defreezing, dehydrofreezing, enfreezing, feezing, friezing
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