frozen
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- v stop moving or become immobilized
- v change to ice
- v be cold
- 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
- v prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)
- v anesthetize by cold
- v suddenly behave coldly and formally
- a turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold
the frozen North
frozen pipes
children skating on a frozen brook - s absolutely still
frozen with horror - s devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain
a frozen look on their faces - s not thawed
- s (used of foods) preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value
frozen foods - s not convertible to cash
frozen assets - s incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. "frozen prices"
- FORTUNE in its December issue, pictures an almost fabulously frozen postwar future for the average citizen.
- Microscopic photo seen an injection of a somatic cell into a nuclear removed-human egg cell during an experiment Somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000 such embryos lie in frozen .
- Frozen red blood cells and sperm will also keep for months or years.