Definitions for the word "freeze" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
A frieze.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. i.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. i.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v.
(-zing; past froze; past part. Frozen) 1 a turn into ice or another solid by cold. B make or become rigid from the cold. 2 be or feel very cold. 3 cover or become covered with ice. 4 (foll. By to, together) adhere by frost. 5 refrigerate (food) below freezing point. 6 a make or become motionless through fear, surprise, etc. B (as frozen adj) devoid of emotion (frozen smile). 7 make (assets etc.) Unrealizable. 8 fix (prices, wages, etc.) At a certain level. 9 stop (the movement in a film). n. 1 period or state of frost. 2 fixing or stabilization of prices, wages, etc. 3 (in full freeze-frame) still film-shot. freeze up obstruct or be obstructed by ice. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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