FREEZE
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Freeze (fr&ē;z), n. (Arch.) A frieze. [Obs.]
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Freeze, v. i. [imp. Froze (fr&ō;z); p. p. Frozen (fr&ō;"z'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Freezing.] [OE. fresen, freosen, AS. freósan; akin to D. vriezen, OHG. iosan, G. frieren, Icel. frjsa, Sw. frysa, Dan. fryse, Goth. frius cold, frost, and prob. to L. prurire to itch, E. prurient, cf. L. prna a burning coal, pruina hoarfrost, Skr. prushv&ā; ice, prush to spirt. &unr_; 18. Cf. Frost.] 1. To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.
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&hand_; Water freezes at 32° above zero by Fahrenheit's thermometer; mercury freezes at 40° below zero.
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2. To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins.
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To freeze up (Fig.), to become formal and cold in demeanor. [Colloq.]
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Freeze, v. t. 1. To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.
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2. To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
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A faint, cold fear runs through my veins,
That almost freezes up the heat of life.
Shak.
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-- To freeze out, to drive out or exclude by cold or by cold treatment; to force to withdraw; as, to be frozen out of one's room in winter; to freeze out a competitor. [Colloq.]A railroad which had a London connection must not be allowed to freeze out one that had no such connection.
A. T. Hadley.It is sometimes a long time before a player who is frozen out can get into a game again.
R. F. Foster.
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Freeze, n. The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed. [Colloq.]
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