freezing

Pluralfreezings

1. 1
   adjective

   Extremely cold, almost too cold to be comfortable.

   Like standing in front of an open freezer for too long.

   It was freezing outside, so we wore thick coats.

   My hands felt freezing after the long walk home.

   Similaricy, frigid, bitter, arctic

   Oppositeboiling, sweltering, scorching

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2. 2
   adjective

   Cold enough to make frost form, or already covered in frost.

   Like a morning so cold the grass turns white.

   The freezing night left ice on every window.

   We drove through freezing fog on the mountain road.

   Similaricy, frosty

3. 3
   verb

   Present participle of freeze. Use it when the freezing is happening right now.

   The pond is freezing solid in this cold snap.

   Freezing the soup in small batches saves room in the fridge.

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4. 4
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The change from a liquid into a solid when something gets cold enough.

   Like water in a tray turning hard as it becomes ice cubes.

   Freezing turns water into solid ice.

   The slow freezing of the lake took several days.

   Similarsolidification

   Oppositemelting, thawing

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5. 5
   adjective

   Right at zero degrees Celsius, where water turns into ice.

   Like the exact point when water in a tray starts to turn to ice.

   The thermometer dropped to freezing by midnight.

   Temperatures stayed just above freezing all day.

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6. 6
   nouncountable

   When a doctor uses medicine to make part of the body feel numb.

   Like switching off the feeling in one small spot.

   The dentist gave me a freezing before pulling the tooth.

   One freezing wasn't enough, so they gave me more.

   Similaranesthetic

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