freeze🔊

(copulative) Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.

To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.

To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.

(informal) To be affected by extreme cold.

(of machines and software) To come to a sudden halt, stop working (functioning). +

(of people and other animals) To stop (become motionless) or be stopped due to attentiveness, fear, surprise, etc. +

To cause someone to become motionless.

(figuratively) To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.

To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.

To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets

Of prices, spending etc., to keep at the same level, without any increase.

(Internet) To prevent from showing any visible change.

A period of intensely cold weather.

A halt of a regular operation.

(computer) The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs. +

(curling) A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out.

(finance) A block on pay rises or on the hiring of new employees etc.

(frieze)