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# freeze

«freeze» in Mova's school dictionary: **Of a liquid: to become solid ice because it is very cold** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (freeze, freezes, froze, frozen, freezing); noun (a freeze, freezes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Of a liquid: to become solid ice because it is very cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freeze/#m1)

2) To keep food very cold in a freezer so it lasts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freeze/#m2)

3) To feel very cold: «I'm freezing!». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freeze/#m3)

4) To stop moving suddenly and stay still, often from fear: «Freeze!». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freeze/#m4)

5) Of a computer or screen: to stop working. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freeze/#m5)

6) A noun: a time of very cold weather; or a stop: a price freeze. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freeze/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

In science: water freezes at 0 °C (32 °F); freezing is the change from liquid to solid, the opposite of melting; water gets bigger when it freezes, so bottles can crack and pipes burst. In safety: frozen ponds may have thin ice — stay off; frostbite in freezing weather; freeze and back away slowly from some animals. Phrases: freezing point, freezing cold, frozen food, freeze up, freeze to death, brain freeze, play musical statues (freeze).

### examples

- Water freezes at zero degrees Celsius. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freeze/#x1)
- We freeze leftover soup to eat later. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freeze/#x2)
- I'm freezing — where's my coat? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freeze/#x3)
- The rabbit froze when it saw the fox. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freeze/#x4)
- My game froze, so I restarted it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freeze/#x5)
- The pond froze overnight, but the ice is too thin to walk on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freeze/#x6)
- Ice cream gave me brain freeze. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freeze/#x7)
- Freeze! said the teacher, and everyone stood still. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freeze/#x8)
- ‘My dear child, it is far too cold; you might freeze to death.’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freeze/#x9)

### note

Irregular: freeze, froze, frozen (not «freezed»). Homophone: «frieze» (a pattern on a wall). In maths and science: 0 °C = 32 °F is the freezing point of water; salt water freezes at a lower temperature. Never refreeze defrosted meat without cooking it.

### In the corpora

- [When you see something upsetting, the body reacts fast: the heart races, the cheeks go hot, you may freeze.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/58-landing-on-an-18-film-by-accident/12/)
- [The North American wood frog can freeze solid in winter, with its heart stopped, and thaw and hop away in spring.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/55-sleep-and-hibernation/12/)
- [Mediterranean tortoises hibernate, and owners guided by a vet keep them steady at about 5 degrees so they neither wake early nor freeze.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/55-sleep-and-hibernation/16/)
- [In 2020 a Przewalski's horse foal called Kurt was cloned from cells frozen 40 years earlier.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals/4/)
- [Picture a city garden at midnight: a fox trots past the bins and somewhere a rabbit freezes, then zigzags away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «freeze» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freeze/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.