freezing
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Etymology
By surface analysis, freeze + -ing.
Pronunciation
Adjective
freezing (comparative more freezing, superlative most freezing)
- (literally) Suffering or causing frost
- (by extension, chiefly hyperbolic) Very cold
- (with above or below) Zero °C, the freezing point of water.
Synonyms
- (literally): frosty, frigorific
- (very cold): ice-cold, icy
Derived terms
Translations
frosty — see frosty
very cold
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Noun
freezing (countable and uncountable, plural freezings)
- (uncountable) The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.
- 1829, James Macauley, The natural, statistical, and civil history of the state of New York:
- Hence, there is a succession of thawings and freezings. The former expand, and endeavour to restore the surface of the ground to its natural condition, while the latter contract and harden it.
- 2015, Kevin Revolinski, 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Madison (page 116)
- […] and the sloping collection of fractured rocks—known as talus—that tumbled down from the quartzite bluffs during the repeated freezings and unfreezings of the last Ice Age.
- (countable, medicine) The action of numbing with anesthetics.
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Translations
the change in state of a substance from liquid to solid on cooling
the action of numbing with anesthetics
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Verb
freezing
- present participle and gerund of freeze
Derived terms
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