Synonyms for freeze up
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : freez |
| Phonetic Transcription : friz |
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Définition of freeze up
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 panic : verb become, make afraid or distressed
- 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
- The crowd opened, and his life seemed to freeze up with horror.
- Extract from : « Kophetua the Thirteenth » by Julian Corbett
- On the 24th, the night shift allowed the pipes to freeze up.
- Extract from : « Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration v. 2 » by Various
- Consequently his milk of human kindness is very apt to freeze up.
- Extract from : « Letters of Peregrine Pickle » by George P. Upton
- All the blood in my veins seemed to freeze up as she was left alone in the arena.
- Extract from : « Beric the Briton » by G. A. Henty
- Then, and it's the only way I can describe it, you both seemed to freeze up for an instant.
- Extract from : « Castle of Terror » by E.J. Liston
- Andy longed for the freeze—up that would make his muskrats safe.
- Extract from : « Swamp Cat » by James Arthur Kjelgaard
- It's early for it, too, and the river will freeze up again bad.
- Extract from : « The Outdoor Girls in a Winter Camp » by Laura Lee Hope
- As soon as the sea begins to freeze up, the natives gather on Iglulik, where they hunt the walrus throughout the winter.
- Extract from : « The Central Eskimo » by Franz Boas
- They were the bitterest words I ever flung at her, and they seemed to freeze up her whole heart.
- Extract from : « The Children's Pilgrimage » by L. T. Meade
Antonyms for freeze up
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