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▸ 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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frost,
immobilize,
freeze out,
stop dead,
suspend,
halt,
block,
freeze down,
deep-freeze,
congeal,
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