freeze
f reez
- n the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid
- n weather cold enough to cause freezing
- n an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement
a nuclear freeze - n fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level
a freeze on hiring - v stop moving or become immobilized
- v change to ice
- v be cold
I could freeze to death in this office when the air conditioning is turned on - v cause to freeze
- v stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
- v be very cold, below the freezing point
- v change from a liquid to a solid when cold
Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit - v prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)
- v anesthetize by cold
- v suddenly behave coldly and formally
- Meany called the wage freeze "patently discriminatory" against labor.
- The Bush Administration's mortgage rate freeze sounds like a life raft for strapped homeowners, but it may do more harm than good.
- In an extraordinary burst of democratic brainstorming, the American political system has generated hundreds of plans for a nuclear arms freeze, including the one that is before .