How do you use the word "freeze" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "freeze": It may freeze next week. Hardly had the rain stopped when the ground began to freeze.

Freeze Meaning

/ˈfɹiːz/

Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbEspecially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.

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

Sentence Examples

It may freeze next week.

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

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

frost halt

Antonyms:

boil

CEFR Practice Quiz

If the temperature drops below zero, the water in the pipe will ____.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

If you leave water in the pipes during a very cold winter, it will ____ and could cause them to burst.

Word Origin & History

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”), Norwegian Nynorsk frysa, fryse (“to freeze”), Swedish frysa (“to freeze”); also Cornish rew (“frost, ice”), Irish reo (“frost”), reoigh (“to freeze”), Manx rio (“frost, ice”), Scottish Gaelic reòdh, reòth (“freeze”), Welsh rhew (“frost, ice”), Latin pruīna (“hoarfrost, rime”), Albanian prush (“embers”), Lithuanian prausti (“to give showers of rain”), Czech prskat (“to splutter, sputter”), Macedonian прска (prska, “to spray, sprinkle”), Polish pryskać, prysnąć (“to spray, sprinkle”), Russian пры́скать (prýskatʹ), пры́снуть (prýsnutʹ, “to spray, sprinkle”), Serbo-Croatian прскати, prskati (“to spray, sprinkle”), Sanskrit प्रुष्णोति (pruṣṇoti, “to moisten, shower, sprinkle, wet”), प्रुष्वा (pruṣvā, “hoarfrost, ice, rime”), Saraiki پسݨ (pussaṇ, “to become wet”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"He got to Dawson before the river froze, and now I suppose I won't hear any more until spring." — 1913 June, Willa Sibert Cather, “Winter Memories”, in O Pioneers!, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], →OCLC:

"Far unfit to bear the bitter cold, / I can scarcely move or draw my breath? / Let me, let me freeze again to death." — 1691, “What Power Art Thou? (The Cold Song)”, in John Dryden (lyrics), Henry Purcell (music), King Arthur:

"As Tarzan rose upon the body of his kill to scream forth his hideous victory cry into the face of the moon the wind carried to his nostrils something which froze him to statuesque immobility and silence." — 1916, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter III, in Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar:

"They froze on their knees, their faces turned upward with a ghastly blue hue in the sudden glare of a weird light that burst blindingly up near the lofty roof and then burned with a throbbing glow." — 1935, Robert E. Howard, chapter IV, in Jewels of Gwahlur:

"Dr Constantine sniggered and Mrs Hubbard immediately froze him with a glance." — 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 102:

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