freeze

CEFRA2

/ˈfɹiːz/

verb

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  1. 01

    verb

    To become or make something solid through very low temperature.

  2. 02

    verb

    Extra detail

    To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.

Examples

  • Hardly had the rain stopped when the ground began to freeze.

  • It may freeze next week.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

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Parts of speech
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Synonyms
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Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.

  2. Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.

  3. To be affected by extreme cold.

More examples

In context

  • 1915, Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson, The How and Why Library: Wonders, Section II: Water, Running water does not freeze as easily as still water.

  • 1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha, Book XX: The Famine, Ever thicker, thicker, thicker / Froze the ice on lake and river,

  • The lake froze solid.

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Origin

verb

From Middle English fresen, from Old English frēosan (“to freeze”), from Proto-West Germanic *freusan, from Proto-Germanic *freusaną (“to freeze”), from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to freeze; frost”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian friis, friise, früüs (“to freeze”), Saterland Frisian fjoose, frjoze (“to freeze”), West Frisian frieze (“to freeze”), Central Franconian freese (“to freeze”), Cimbrian briizan, vriizan (“to be cold”), Dutch vriezen (“to freeze”), Low German freren, fresen (“to freeze”), Luxembourgish fréieren (“to freeze”), German frieren (“to freeze”), Yiddish פֿרירן (frirn, “freeze”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål fryse (“to freeze”), Icelandic frjósa (“to freeze”), Norwe...