(intransitive, copulative) Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature. / (transitive) To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.

A period of intensely cold weather. / A halt of a regular operation. / (computing) The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.

Obsolete form of frieze.

plural of freeze

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of freeze

(dialect, nonstandard) simple past tense and past participle of freeze

plural of Freeze

A surname.

(literally) Suffering or causing frost / (by extension, chiefly hyperbolic) Very cold / (with above or below) Zero °C, the freezing point of water.

(uncountable, physics, chemistry) The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature. / (countable, medicine) The action of numbing with anesthetics.