The meaning of FREEZE is to become congealed into ice by cold. How to use freeze in a sentence.
FREEZE definition: to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat. See examples of freeze used in a sentence.
[transitive] freeze something to prevent money, a bank account, etc. from being used by getting a court order which bans it The company's assets have been frozen.
If you freeze something such as food, you preserve it by storing it at a temperature below freezing point. You can also talk about how well food freezes. You can freeze the soup at this stage.
The Modern English paradigm for the verb freeze is freeze, froze, frozen, with a z throughout. However, in Old English, the principal parts were frēosan, frēas, froren.
If you freeze something, you lower its temperature below 0°C, causing it to become cold and often hard, and if something freezes, its temperature goes below 0°C:
Freeze the wizard in his vessel, / Freeze to ice the wicked Ahti, ... (intransitive) To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.
Physics to (cause to) become hard with cold: [no object] The meat will freeze in a few hours. [~ + object] will freeze the meat solid. to (cause to) suffer the effects or sensation of intense cold: [no object] We froze until the heat came on.[~ + object] Those cold winter nights froze us.