Antonyms for freeze

Grammar : Verb

Spell : freez

Phonetic Transcription : friz

Definition of freeze

Origin : Old English freosan "turn to ice" (class II strong verb; past tense freas, past participle froren), from Proto-Germanic *freusanan (cf. Old Norse frjosa, Old High German friosan, German frieren "to freeze," Gothic frius "frost"), from Proto-Germanic *freus-, equivalent to PIE root *preus- "to freeze," also "to burn" (cf. Sanskrit prusva, Latin pruina "hoarfrost," Welsh rhew "frost," Sanskrit prustah "burnt," Albanian prus "burning coals," Latin pruna "a live coal").
Transitive sense first recorded 14c., figurative sense c.1400. Meaning "become rigid or motionless" attested by 1720. Sense of "fix at a certain level, make non-transactable" is 1922. Freeze frame is from 1960, originally "a briefly Frozen Shot after the Jingle to allow ample time for Change over at the end of a T.V. 'Commercial.' " ["ABC of Film & TV," 1960].

verb make cold enough to become solid
verb stop

Example sentences :

Wagon-tracks along the road were filled with water and had begun to freeze.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Content to starve, content to freeze, if only he need not be carried into captivity.
Extract from : « The Village Watch-Tower » by (AKA Kate Douglas Riggs) Kate Douglas Wiggin

Put him in a car of dressed beef and he'd freeze it between here and Spokane.
Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson

"But it never has been cold enough to freeze your tail off," said the Prince, consolingly.
Extract from : « Prince Vance » by Eleanor Putnam

He laughed—a low laugh that seemed to freeze the air around him.
Extract from : « The Floating Island of Madness » by Jason Kirby

That accomplished, the earth might freeze over her for ever.
Extract from : « Howards End » by E. M. Forster

To do this he must walk the whole night through, let it rain or snow or freeze.
Extract from : « The Shadow of a Crime » by Hall Caine

At that heartless sound all the soul in Paul Ritson seemed to freeze.
Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine

Besides, you'd freeze up there, if the smell of moth-balls didn't choke you first.
Extract from : « The Portygee » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

But the quality of the imagination is to flow, and not to freeze.
Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Synonyms for freeze

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