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Verb freeze has 10 senses
- freeze - change to ice; "The water in the bowl froze"
--1 is one way to change state, turn
Antonyms: boil
Sample sentence:
The water freezes
- freeze, stop dead - stop moving or become immobilized; "When he saw the police car he froze"
--2 is one way to stand still
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- freeze - be cold; "I could freeze to death in this office when the air conditioning is turned on"
--3 is one way to suffer
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody's (body part) ----s
- freeze - cause to freeze; "Freeze the leftover food"
--4 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentence:
The chefs freeze the vegetables
- freeze, suspend - stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it; "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country"
--5 is one way to interrupt, break
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- freeze - be very cold, below the freezing point; "It is freezing in Kalamazoo"
Sample sentence:
It was freezeing all day long
- freeze, freeze out, freeze down - change from a liquid to a solid when cold; "Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit"
--7 is one way to solidify
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- freeze, block, immobilize, immobilise - prohibit the conversion or use of (assets); "Blocked funds"; "Freeze the assets of this hostile government"
--8 is one way to withhold, keep back
Antonyms: unblock, unfreeze, free, release
Sample sentence:
They freeze the money
- freeze - anesthetize by cold
--9 is one way to anesthetize, anaesthetize, anesthetise, anaesthetise, put to sleep, put under, put out
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- freeze - suddenly behave coldly and formally; "She froze when she saw her ex-husband"
--10 is one way to act, behave, do
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
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