frozen

CEFRA2

/ˈfɹəʊzən/

adjective · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Turned into ice or made very cold.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    Of an account or assets, in a state such that transactions are not allowed.

Examples

  • It being awfully cold, the party were almost frozen to death.

  • Lake Akan is frozen over.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
1

Also pronounced

  • /ˈfɹoʊzən/

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

  1. Having undergone the process of freezing; in ice form.

  2. Retaining an older, obsolete syntax of an earlier version of a language, which now operates only on a specific word or phrase.

verb

Extra meaning

  1. past participle of freeze

More examples

In context

  • We were nearly frozen to death.

  • I just stood frozen in terror as the robber pointed at me with his gun.

  • The mammoth has been frozen for ten thousand years.

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Origin

adjective

From Middle English frozen, frosen, ifrozen, variant of froren, ifroren ("frozen"; > see frorn), past participle of Middle English fresen, freosen (“to freeze”). By surface analysis, freeze + -n.