Define the word frozen"Frozen" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Freeze \Freeze\, v. i. [imp. Froze (fr[=o]z); p. p. Frozen
(fr[=o]"z'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Freezing.] [OE. fresen,
freosen, AS. fre['o]san; akin to D. vriezen, OHG. iosan, G.
frieren, Icel. frjsa, Sw. frysa, Dan. fryse, Goth. frius
cold, frost, and prob. to L. prurire to itch, E. prurient,
cf. L. prna a burning coal, pruina hoarfrost, Skr. prushv[=a]
ice, prush to spirt. ? 18. Cf. Frost.]
1. To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid
to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be
hardened into ice or a like solid body.
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Note: Water freezes at 32[deg] above zero by Fahrenheit's
thermometer; mercury freezes at 40[deg] below zero.
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2. To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer
loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood
freezes in the veins.
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To freeze up (Fig.), to become formal and cold in demeanor.
[Colloq.]
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"Frozen" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Frozen \Fro"zen\, a.
1. Congealed with cold; affected by freezing; as, a frozen
brook.
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They warmed their frozen feet. --Dryden.
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2. Subject to frost, or to long and severe cold; chilly; as,
the frozen north; the frozen zones.
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3. Cold-hearted; unsympathetic; unyielding. [R.]
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Be not ever frozen, coy. --T. Carew.
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"frozen" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
freeze
n 1: the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to
a solid [syn: freezing]
2: weather cold enough to cause freezing [syn: frost]
3: an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or
movement; "a halt in the arms race"; "a nuclear freeze"
[syn: halt]
4: fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level; "a
freeze on hiring"
v 1: change to ice; "The water in the bowl froze" [ant: boil]
2: stop moving or become immobilized; "When he saw the police
car he froze" [syn: stop dead]
3: be cold; "I could freeze to death in this office when the
air conditioning is turned on"
4: cause to freeze; "Freeze the leftover food"
5: stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it;
"Suspend the aid to the war-torn country" [syn: suspend]
6: be very cold, below the freezing point; "It is freezing in
Kalamazoo"
7: change from a liquid to a solid when cold; "Water freezes at
32 degrees Fahrenheit" [syn: freeze out, freeze down]
8: prohibit the conversion or use of (assets); "Blocked funds";
"Freeze the assets of this hostile government" [syn: block,
immobilize, immobilise] [ant: unblock, unblock]
9: anesthetize by cold
10: suddenly behave coldly and formally; "She froze when she saw
her ex-husband"
[also: frozen, froze]
"frozen" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
frozen
See freeze
"frozen" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
frozen
adj 1: turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe
cold; "the frozen North"; "frozen pipes"; "children
skating on a frozen brook" [ant: unfrozen]
2: absolutely still; "frozen with horror"; "they stood rooted
in astonishment" [syn: frozen(p), rooted(p), stock-still]
3: devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of
unfriendliness or disdain; "a frigid greeting"; "got a
frosty reception"; "a frozen look on their faces"; "a
glacial handshake"; "icy stare"; "wintry smile" [syn: frigid,
frosty, glacial, icy, wintry]
4: not thawed
5: used of foods; preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to
retain flavor and nutritional value; "frozen foods" [syn:
flash-frozen, quick-frozen]
6: not convertible to cash; "frozen assets"
7: incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. "frozen
prices"; "living on fixed incomes" [syn: fixed]
"frozen" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
169 Moby Thesaurus words for "frozen":
abiding, adamant, adamantine, affectless, aghast, aguey, aguish,
algid, amaranthine, anesthetized, appalled, arctic, ashen,
astounded, at a standstill, autistic, awed, awestricken, awestruck,
blanched, blast-frozen, blue with cold, blunt, catatonic,
changeless, chattering, chill, chilly, cold, cold as charity,
cold-blooded, coldhearted, congealed, constant, continuing, cool,
cowed, deadly pale, deathless, dispassionate, dithery, drugged,
dull, durable, embalmed, emotionally dead, emotionless, enduring,
ever-fresh, everlasting, fadeless, firm, fixed, frigid,
frostbitten, frosted, frostnipped, frosty, frozen solid,
frozen to death, gelid, glacial, gray with fear, half-frozen,
heartless, horrified, horror-struck, ice, ice-cold, icelike, icy,
icy-cold, immobile, immortal, immotile, immotive, immovable,
immutable, impassible, impassive, imperishable, incorruptible,
inexcitable, inflexible, insusceptible, intact, intimidated,
inviolate, irremovable, lasting, never-dying, nonemotional,
objective, obtuse, out of touch, pale as death, pallid, paralyzed,
passionless, pat, permanent, perpetual, persistent, petrified,
quick-frozen, quiescent, remaining, rigid, scared stiff,
scared to death, self-absorbed, shaky, sharp-frozen, shivering,
shivery, solid, soulless, spiritless, stable, standpat, static,
stationary, staying, steadfast, stunned, stupefied, sustained,
terrified, terror-crazed, terror-haunted, terror-ridden,
terror-riven, terror-shaken, terror-smitten, terror-struck,
terror-troubled, torpid, unaffectionate, unaltered, unchangeable,
unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, undestroyed, undone, undying,
unemotional, unfading, unfailing, unfeeling, unimpassioned,
unimpressionable, unloving, unmanned, unmovable, unmoving,
unnerved, unpassionate, unresponding, unresponsive, unshifting,
unstrung, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, unvaried,
unvarying, unyielding, with chattering teeth
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