Freeze , v. t. -- To freeze out, to drive out
or exclude by cold or by cold treatment; to force to withdraw; as, to be frozen out of one's room in winter; to freeze out a competitor.
[Colloq.]
A railroad which had a London
connection must not be allowed to
freeze out one that had
no such connection.
A.
T. Hadley. It
is sometimes a long time before a player who is
frozen out can get into
a game again.
R. F. Foster.
Freeze , n. The act of
congealing, or the state of being congealed. [Colloq.]
Freeze , v. t. 1. To
congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form
by cold, or
abstraction of heat.
2. To cause loss
of animation or life in, from lack of
heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
A faint, cold fear runs through my veins,
That almost freezes up the heat of life.
Shak.
Freeze , v. i. [imp.
Froze (?); p. p. Frozen (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Freezing.]
[OE. fresen,
freosen, AS. freósan; akin to D.
vriezen, OHG. iosan, G. frieren,
Icel. frjsa, Sw. frysa, Dan.
fryse, Goth. frius cold, frost, and prob. to L.
prurire to itch, E. prurient, cf. L. prna a burning coal, pruina hoarfrost, Skr. prushvā ice, prush to spirt. &?; 18. Cf. Frost.] 1. To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a
liquid to a
solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.
&fist; Water freezes at 32° above zero by
Fahrenheit's thermometer; mercury
freezes at 40° below
zero.
2. To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to
suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat;
as, the blood freezes in the veins.
To freeze up (Fig.), to become formal and cold in demeanor. [Colloq.]
Freeze (?), n. (Arch.) A frieze. [Obs.]
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