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Freeze [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. preterit tense froze; participle passive frozen, or froze. [Gr. had for its radical letters.]

2. To be congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body. Water freezes at the temperature of 32 degrees above zero by Fahrenheit's thermometer. Mercury freezes at 40 degrees below zero.

3. To be of that degree of cold at which water congeals.

4. To chill; to stagnate, or to retire from the extreme vessels; as, the blood freezes in the veins.

5. To be chilled; to shiver with cold.

6. To die by means of cold. We say a man freezes to death.

Freeze [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To congeal; to harden into ice; to change from a fluid to a solid form by cold or abstraction of heat. This weather will freeze the rivers and lakes.

2. To kill by cold; but we often add the words to death. this air will freeze you, or freeze you to death.

3. To chill; to give the sensation of cold and shivering. This horrid tale freezes my blood.

4. FREEZE , in architecture. [ See Frieze .]

Freeze [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A frieze.

2. The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.

Freeze [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.

2. To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins.

Freeze [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.

2. To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.

Freezer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who, or that which, cools or freezes, as a refrigerator, or the tub and can used in the process of freezing ice cream.