Frozen

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  frozen
       See {freeze}

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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