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Antonyms for freeze out
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : freez-out |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfrizˌaʊt |
- accept
- add
- admit
- advance
- advocate
- aid
- allow
- approve
- assign
- assist
- blame
- choose
- clear
- condemn
- continue
- dam
- delegate
- detain
- employ
- encourage
- engage
- free
- go
- grant
- help
- hire
- hold
- imprison
- include
- keep
- let go
- load
- loosen
- obey
- open
- owe
- permit
- promote
- ratify
- release
- retain
- sanction
- support
- unfasten
- upgrade
- welcome
Definition of freeze out
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].
- As in bar : verb prohibit
- As in depose : verb oust from position
- As in discharge : verb dismiss from responsibility
- The object is to freeze out competition and keep up the prices.
- Extract from : « Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 » by Various
- I am charmed to learn that you have had a freeze out of my ghost story.
- Extract from : « The Letters of Charles Dickens » by Charles Dickens
- The boys was having a little game of 'freeze out' last night.
- Extract from : « Saddle and Mocassin » by Francis Francis Jr.
- Or it might have expired and left them to freeze out there in the washhouse.
- Extract from : « The Girls of Hillcrest Farm » by Amy Bell Marlowe
- I should give yourself five more minutes; you'll freeze out there.
- Extract from : « Married Life » by May Edginton
- I am well acquainted with one man of Yankee origin, who formerly made it a practice to freeze out his colds, as he called it.
- Extract from : « Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders » by William A. Alcott
- But as the clock ticked off the half-hour I seemed to freeze out of the eruptive and into the glacial stage.
- Extract from : « The Portal of Dreams » by Charles Neville Buck
- Except that his hands were like to freeze out of use Christian cared marvellously little for outer miseries.
- Extract from : « The Unknown Sea » by Clemence Housman
- Did he not know, or at least more than suspect, that the company was trying to "freeze out" the distant holders?
- Extract from : « To The Front » by Charles King
- But if he thought to freeze out his dainty visitor by his indifference he was mistaken.
- Extract from : « They Looked and Loved » by Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller
Synonyms for freeze out
- absolve
- ax
- ban
- boot out
- bounce
- boycott
- break
- bump
- bust
- can
- cashier
- chuck
- circumvent
- condemn
- debar
- degrade
- demote
- deny
- dethrone
- disallow
- disburden
- discard
- discountenance
- discourage
- discrown
- disencumber
- dismiss
- dispense
- displace
- downgrade
- drum out
- eject
- eliminate
- enjoin
- except
- exclude
- excuse
- exempt
- exile
- expel
- fire
- forbid
- freeze out
- frustrate
- give heave-ho
- give one notice
- hinder
- impeach
- interdict
- interfere
- keep out
- kick out
- lay off
- let go
- let off
- let one go
- let out
- limit
- lock out
- nix
- obstruct
- ostracize
- oust
- outlaw
- override
- overthrow
- preclude
- prevent
- privilege from
- refuse
- reject
- relieve
- remove
- remove from office
- replace
- restrain
- ride out on rail
- rule out
- run out of town
- segregate
- send packing
- show the door
- shut out
- spare
- stop
- subvert
- supersede
- supplant
- suspend
- terminate
- throw out
- throw out on ear
- uncrown
- unfrock
- unload
- unmake
- unseat
- upset
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