freeze

• anneal
• bite
• cake
• calcify
• callus
• case-harden
• chill
• chilliness
• chillness
• clot
• coagulate
• cold
• cold front
• cold wave
• coldness
• concrete
• congeal
• crystalize
• crystallize
• deep freeze
• encrust
• frigidness
• frost
• gel
• gelate
• gelatinize
• harden
• incrust
• indurate
• jell
• jelly
• nip
• ossify
• petrify
• rigidify
• set
• snap
• solidify
• stiffen
• temper
• thicken
• wintriness

• deliquesce
• dissolve
• dog days
• flux
• fuse
• heat
• heat wave
• liquefy
• liquify
• melt
• smelt
• soften
• thaw
• torridity
• torridness
• unfreeze

• verb
  1. Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
  2. To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.
  3. To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.
  4. To be affected by extreme cold.
  5. (of machines and software) To come to a sudden halt, stop working (functioning).
  6. (of people and other animals) To stop (become motionless) or be stopped due to attentiveness, fear, surprise, etc.
  7. To cause someone to become motionless.
  8. To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.
  9. To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
  10. To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets.
  11. Of prices, spending etc., to keep at the same level, without any increase.
• noun
  1. A period of intensely cold weather.
  2. A halt of a regular operation.
  3. The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.
  4. 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.
  5. A block on pay rises or on the hiring of new employees etc.
  6. A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
  7. That part of the entablature of an order which is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, either uniform or broken by triglyphs, and often enriched with figures and other ornaments of sculpture.
  8. Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture.
  9. A banner with a series of pictures.

• Water will freeze at 32 degrees Fahrenheit.
• The computer began to freeze while I was saving my work.
• He felt his hands freeze in the cold wind.
• The government decided to freeze prices to control inflation.
• She told him to freeze when the bear appeared in front of them.

iciness

jam-up

pacification

tag along

calcify

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