Antonyms for freeze out

Grammar : Verb

Spell : freez-out

Phonetic Transcription : ˈfrizˌaʊt

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

Example sentences :

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

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