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Synonyms for freezing

Grammar : Adj
Spell : free-zing
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfri zɪŋ

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Définition of freezing

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].
  • adj very cold
Example sentences :
  • "I shall not keep you longer from his Highness," said the Princess with freezing dignity.
  • Extract from : « Jennie Baxter, Journalist » by Robert Barr
  • It was freezing cold, and the chill was worse in the dock that I entered.
  • Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
  • In winter, kept cold, yet not in danger of freezing, it will keep a week.
  • Extract from : « Culture and Cooking » by Catherine Owen
  • The horses, which had been put to long before, were freezing in the snow.
  • Extract from : « A Hero of Our Time » by M. Y. Lermontov
  • He only trembled, as though overtaken by some horror which was freezing him.
  • Extract from : « Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille » by Emile Zola
  • Lavinia was a glacier, moving majestically and freezing as it moved.
  • Extract from : « Keziah Coffin » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • Yet in that moment, from calm and freezing that he had been, he became ruffled and hot.
  • Extract from : « St. Martin's Summer » by Rafael Sabatini
  • He half-turned, his manner changing suddenly to a freezing civility.
  • Extract from : « St. Martin's Summer » by Rafael Sabatini
  • No, the old time will be adhered to just as if it was cold and wet and freezing.
  • Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
  • If a battery is given any care whatever, there is little danger of freezing.
  • Extract from : « The Automobile Storage Battery » by O. A. Witte

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