freeze

[friːz]

Definition:
1. To become hard, and often turn to ice, as a result of extreme cold; to make something do this.
2. The withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid.
3. Weather cold enough to cause freezing.
4. An interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement.
5. Change to ice.
6. Stop moving or become immobilized.
7. Be cold.

Use 'freeze' in a sentence:

1. These might include threats to freeze EU funds for poorer regions and EU mega-projects, and even the suspension of a country's voting rights in EU ministerial councils.
2. If the winter is not cold enough to freeze the ground, you can grow carrots the same way as you do during the summer months.
3. A freeze warning was posted for Thursday night.
4. If the Earth-Sun distance were as little as 1 percent larger, runaway glaciation on Earth about 2 billion years ago would have caused the oceans to freeze and remain frozen to this day.
5. It's freezing cold.
6. I froze with terror as the door slowly opened.
7. Outside of containers, this new freeze/thaw scheme can find uses in checkpointing.
8. Place them in plastic bags and freeze.
9. On a visit to an insect farm, she greedily peels the wings and legs off a freeze-dried locust and crunches down with gusto.
10. It makes providing funds for terror activities a criminal offense and would freeze bank accounts of those who sponsor terrorism.
11. I'm not going in there ─ it's freezing!
12. Scientists aren't exactly sure what causes the brain freeze when we eat ice cream or other super cold foods too quickly, though some believe it's the result of changed blood.
13. I must swim and swim, or the pond will freeze around me.
14. Get a warm shawl, she'll freeze in this cold night.
15. The company's assets have been frozen.
16. Have you ever been in the middle of speaking and suddenly…brain freeze! It is possible that you forgot something for the moment.
17. Every time she opens the window we all freeze.
18. If the Earth-Sun distance were as little as 1 percent larger, runaway glaciations on Earth about 2 billion years ago would have caused the oceans to freeze and remain frozen to this day.
19. Then that puddle of water starts to freeze.
20. Now these areas, the new areas the farmers moved to, used to be warm and unlikely to freeze, however, recently the area has become susceptible to freezes.
21. Among other benefits, this allows her to freeze the development of an embryo during times of drought and food shortage until the offspring in the pouch is able to leave.
22. Three people died in a multiple pile-up in freezing fog.
23. Can you freeze this cake?
24. Farmers still talk about the big freeze of' 99.
25. I came home from the game frozen stiff.
26. The temperatures remained below freezing all day.
27. These meals are ideal for home freezing.
28. You can freeze the soup at this stage.
29. Two men froze to death on the mountain.
30. The point at which the solid and the liquid are in equilibrium is called the freezing point.
31. When the chicken is cooked I'll freeze some.
32. In the fall, they use tomato preserves for a lot of what they cook, and they freeze and can vegetables to use in the winter.
33. The trees were damaged by a freeze in December.
34. It may freeze tonight, so bring those plants inside.
35. She had her eggs harvested and frozen for her own future use.
36. The ground was frozen solid.
37. This afternoon's sunshine could nudge the temperature above freezing.
38. Two men were frozen to death on the mountain.
39. They want the government to freeze prices.
40. They went out in freezing conditions to shovel snow.
41. The heat wasn't on and the house was freezing.
42. A third of companies reviewing pay since last August have imposed a pay freeze of up to a year.
43. Tonight temperatures will fall well below freezing.
44. The cold weather had frozen the ground.
45. Some fruits freeze better than others.
46. The clothes on the washing line were frozen stiff.
47. It's freezing cold outside.
48. It's absolutely freezing outside.
49. She stared at him, frozen with shock.
50. Remove the banana peel and place them in plastic bags or containers and freeze.
51. The police officer shouted 'Freeze!' and the man dropped the gun.
52. There is a fear that the freeze on bank accounts could prove a lasting deterrent to investors.
53. It was so cold that the stream had frozen solid.
54. We were forced to work outside in freezing conditions.
55. Ten degrees of frost had frozen the lock on the car.
56. The staff have agreed to a voluntary wage freeze.
57. A wage freeze was imposed on all staff earlier this month.