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Frozen   /frˈoʊzən/   Listen
verb
Freeze  v. t.  (past froze; past part. frozen; pres. part. freezing)  
1.
To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.
2.
To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill. "A faint, cold fear runs through my veins, That almost freezes up the heat of life."
To freeze out, to drive out or exclude by cold or by cold treatment; to force to withdraw; as, to be frozen out of one's room in winter; to freeze out a competitor. (Colloq.) "A railroad which had a London connection must not be allowed to freeze out one that had no such connection." "It is sometimes a long time before a player who is frozen out can get into a game again."


Freeze  v. i.  (past froze; past part. frozen; pres. part. freezing)  
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. Note: Water freezes at 32° above zero by Fahrenheit's thermometer; mercury freezes at 40° below zero.
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.
To freeze up (Fig.), to become formal and cold in demeanor. (Colloq.)


adjective
Frozen  adj.  
1.
Congealed with cold; affected by freezing; as, a frozen brook. "They warmed their frozen feet."
2.
Subject to frost, or to long and severe cold; chilly; as, the frozen north; the frozen zones.
3.
Cold-hearted; unsympathetic; unyielding. (R.) "Be not ever frozen, coy."





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"Frozen" Quotes from Famous Books



... wall; but full upon the purplish face of Mr. Henderson the beam shone. In some way it penetrated to the murk in his mind; and he awakened from his swoon with a hoarse cry, struggled to his feet, and stood looking up the stair in a sort of frozen horror. ...
— The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer
... icy mountains had become one monstrous polar bear, whose powers of voice, frozen for prolonged ages, had at last found vent that night in one concentrated roar, the noise could scarcely have excelled that which instantly exploded from ...
— The Norsemen in the West • R.M. Ballantyne
... indeed, can be more fascinating than the new world revealed by frost. In shaded places of the valley you may walk through larches and leafless alder thickets by silent farms, all silvered over with hoar spangles—fairy forests, where the flowers and foliage are rime. The streams are flowing half-frozen over rocks sheeted with opaque green ice. Here it is strange to watch the swirl of water freeing itself from these frost-shackles, and to see it eddying beneath the overhanging eaves of frailest crystal-frosted snow. All is so silent, still, and weird ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece • John Addington Symonds
... you talking about, Ruth? I didn't have it with me. I was nearly frozen. You or Bab must have brought it with you. I found it over my shoulders when I ...
— The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires - The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail • Laura Dent Crane
... not cry. She simply looked up at him, frozen-white. "Oh, it wasn't fair for him to go—that way. He tried so hard. ...
— Contrary Mary • Temple Bailey


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