freeze
Signification (Anglais)
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- Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
- To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.
- To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.
- (informal) To be affected by extreme cold.
- (of machines and software) To come to a sudden halt, stop working (functioning).
- (of people and other animals) To stop (become motionless) or be stopped due to attentiveness, fear, surprise, etc.
- To cause someone to become motionless.
- To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.
- To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
- To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets
- Of prices, spending etc., to keep at the same level, without any increase.
- To prevent from showing any visible change.
Concepts
gêler
se figer
se congeler
être transi
Gela
mettre sous séquestre
se rafraîchir
être engourdi de froid
devenir solide
devenir glacial
s'engourdir
se glacer
se rafraichir
se refroidir
être gelé
Synonymes
refrigerate
become numb
become solid
be frozen over
be cold
freeze down
become stiff
be frosty
be frozen
very cold
be chilled
frozeness
bind-seize
be freezing
freeze to death
frozen stiff
become hard
feel chilly
feel cold
flash-freeze
get cold
get hard
grow numb
turn to stone
become firm
stop still
be stupefied/srunned
cover with ice
be intensely cold
make rigid
cooling agent
congealation
Fréquence
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/ˈfɹiːz/
Étymologie (Anglais)
In summary
From Middle English fresen, from Old English frēosan (“to freeze”), from Proto-West Germanic *freusan, from Proto-Germanic *freusaną (“to frost, freeze”), from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to frost, freeze”). Cognate with Scots frese (“to freeze”), Saterland Frisian frjoze (“to freeze”), West Frisian frieze (“to freeze”), Dutch vriezen (“to freeze”), Low German freren, freern, fresen (“to freeze”), German frieren (“to freeze”), Danish fryse (“to freeze”), Norwegian fryse, Swedish frysa (“to freeze”), Latin pruīna (“hoarfrost”), Welsh (Northern) rhew (“frost, ice”), and Sanskrit प्रुष्व (pruṣvá, “water drop, frost”).
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