Freeze
- n. A frieze.
- 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.
- 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.
- v. t. To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.
- v. t. To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.