# frozen

Pronunciation: say "FROH-zuhn" US /ˈfɹoʊzn̩/, UK /ˈfɹəʊzn̩/

## Adjective

1. Hardened or solidified by extreme cold; turned into ice or kept in an icy state.
   - Simple: Turned hard and solid because of cold, or changed into ice.
   - _The ground stayed frozen well into early spring._
   - _She stored the frozen berries until she had enough for jam._
2. Held completely still and unable to move, often from fear, shock, or sudden tension.
   - Simple: Unable to move, held still as if stuck in one place.
   - _The hikers stayed frozen as the bear wandered past their camp._
   - _He sat frozen at his desk, too stunned to react to the announcement._
3. Held under a restriction that prevents any transactions, transfers, or withdrawals.
   - Simple: Blocked by an order so that no money can be moved or spent.
   - _The court ordered the suspect's assets frozen during the trial._
   - _His savings remained frozen while the bank investigated the dispute._
5. Preserving an older, now-obsolete grammatical structure that survives only within a particular word or fixed phrase.
   - Simple: Keeping an old grammar pattern that now only shows up in one fixed word or phrase.
   - _The subjunctive survives in frozen expressions such as "be that as it may."_
   - _Phrases like "with child" preserve a frozen syntax that the living language has otherwise lost._

## Verb

4. Past participle of freeze. — past participle of freeze
   - Simple: Past participle of freeze. Use this form after has, have, or had.
   - _The water has frozen in the outdoor pipes again._
   - _By morning the whole pond had frozen over._

## Origin

From Middle English frozen (also frosen, ifrozen), a variant of froren/ifroren, the past participle of the Middle English verb fresen, freosen ("to freeze"). By surface analysis it is freeze + -n.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/frozen (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).