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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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