Usually means: Halt movement or activity suddenly.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. freeze: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. freeze: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. freeze: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. freeze: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Freeze, freeze: Wordnik
  6. freeze: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Freeze, freeze: Wiktionary
  8. freeze: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. freeze: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. freeze: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. freeze: Dictionary.com
  12. freeze: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. freeze: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. Freeze: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. freeze: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. freeze: Rhymezone
  18. freeze: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. freeze: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. freeze: Free Dictionary
  21. freeze: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. freeze: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. freeze: Vocabulary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Freeze (disambiguation), freeze: Legal dictionary
  3. freeze: Financial dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. freeze: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. freeze: Netlingo
  3. freeze: CCI Computer
  4. The Microsoft Lexicon (No longer online)
  5. Freeze (disambiguation), freeze: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Freeze (disambiguation), freeze: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. freeze: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. freeze, freeze, freeze: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Freeze: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Freeze: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive, copulative) Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
verb:  (transitive) To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.
verb:  (intransitive) To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.
verb:  (intransitive, informal) To be affected by extreme cold.
verb:  (intransitive) (of machines and software) To come to a sudden halt, stop working (functioning).
verb:  (intransitive) (of people and other animals) To stop (become motionless) or be stopped due to attentiveness, fear, surprise, etc.
verb:  (transitive) To cause someone to become motionless.
verb:  (figuratively) To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.
verb:  To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
verb:  (transitive) To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets
verb:  Of prices, spending etc., to keep at the same level, without any increase.
verb:  (Internet) To prevent from showing any visible change.
noun:  A period of intensely cold weather.
noun:  A halt of a regular operation.
noun:  (computing) The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (business, finance) A block on pay rises or on the hiring of new employees etc.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Obsolete form of frieze. [A kind of coarse woollen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.]

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