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freeze

verb as in make cold enough to become solid

verb as in stop

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Example Sentences

Most or all spots except right near the water should see a freeze.

The system was among the first in the country to announce service cuts and a hiring freeze in hopes of conserving cash.

Patchy frost and freeze spots are possible — bring in those outdoor plants if you’ve potted them!

The visa freeze is due to expire at the end of the year, and people such as Bowman have vowed to keep their doors open once a new season starts, probably next year.

From Ozy

BBC Global News, the commercial, international arm of the BBC, has, like other publishers, weathered sudden double-digit percentage drops in digital ad revenue over the last six months from coronavirus-induced spending freezes.

From Digiday

The quandary of whether to freeze eggs or not could become irrelevant overnight.

But with the outbreak of hostilities in mid-2011, all festivities were thrust into the deep freeze.

To get the product from manufacturer to arm, the product is lyophilized (a fancy word for freeze dried).

MAKE IT AHEAD: Assemble the pot pies completely, cover tightly, and refrigerate for up to a day or freeze for up to a month.

Some time passes, another performer tests positive, another temporary production freeze.

I have paid to have a fire kept up in the furnace for a week so that the pipes would not freeze.

Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful.

When the soil pipe from a water-closet is exposed in cold weather it may freeze up or be clogged by urinary deposits.

The newcomer would import an element of caste and class which would freeze mother and daughter to the bones.

Even while she gazed there crept over her a sensation of deadly fear and dread, that seemed to freeze the very blood in her veins.

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On this page you'll find 93 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to freeze, such as: chill, ice, refrigerate, benumb, bite, and congeal.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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