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Frozen

adjective

1.

Turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold. "Frozen pipes" , "Children skating on a frozen brook" Antonym: unfrozen.

2.

Absolutely still. Synonyms: rooted, stock-still. "They stood rooted in astonishment"

3.

Devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain. Synonyms: frigid, frosty, glacial, icy, wintry. "Got a frosty reception" , "A frozen look on their faces" , "A glacial handshake" , "Icy stare" , "Wintry smile"

4.

Not thawed.

5.

(used of foods) preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value. Synonyms: flash-frozen, quick-frozen.

6.

Not convertible to cash.

7.

Incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g.. Synonym: fixed. "Living on fixed incomes"

Freeze

verb

(past froze; past part. frozen; pres. part. freezing)

1.

Stop moving or become immobilized. Synonym: stop dead.

2.

Change to ice. Antonym: boil.

3.

Be cold.

4.

Cause to freeze.

5.

Stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it. Synonym: suspend.

6.

Be very cold, below the freezing point.

7.

Change from a liquid to a solid when cold. Synonyms: freeze down, freeze out.

8.

Prohibit the conversion or use of (assets). Synonyms: block, immobilise, immobilize. "Freeze the assets of this hostile government" Antonyms: unblock, unfreeze.

9.

Anesthetize by cold.

10.

Suddenly behave coldly and formally.

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"Frozen" Quotes from Famous Books

... wall; but full upon the purplish face of Mr. Henderson the beam shone. In some way it penetrated to the murk in his mind; and he awakened from his swoon with a hoarse cry, struggled to his feet, and stood looking up the stair in a sort of frozen horror. ...

— The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer

... icy mountains had become one monstrous polar bear, whose powers of voice, frozen for prolonged ages, had at last found vent that night in one concentrated roar, the noise could scarcely have excelled that which instantly exploded from ...

— The Norsemen in the West • R.M. Ballantyne

... indeed, can be more fascinating than the new world revealed by frost. In shaded places of the valley you may walk through larches and leafless alder thickets by silent farms, all silvered over with hoar spangles—fairy forests, where the flowers and foliage are rime. The streams are flowing half-frozen over rocks sheeted with opaque green ice. Here it is strange to watch the swirl of water freeing itself from these frost-shackles, and to see it eddying beneath the overhanging eaves of frailest crystal-frosted snow. All is so silent, still, and weird ...

— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece • John Addington Symonds

... you talking about, Ruth? I didn't have it with me. I was nearly frozen. You or Bab must have brought it with you. I found it over my shoulders when I ...

— The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires - The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail • Laura Dent Crane

... not cry. She simply looked up at him, frozen-white. "Oh, it wasn't fair for him to go—that way. He tried so hard. ...

— Contrary Mary • Temple Bailey

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