frees/freeze/frieze

frees (frēz)

freeze (frēz)

Noun

The act of freezing.
A spell of cold weather; a frost.
A restriction that forbids a quantity from rising above a given or current level: a freeze on city jobs; a proposed freeze on the production of nuclear weapons.

Verb. _{^{froze (frōz), fro·zen (frō'zən), freez·ing, freez·es.}}

Verb. Intransitive

To pass from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
To be at that degree of temperature at which ice forms: It may freeze tonight.
To be killed or harmed by cold or frost: They almost froze to death. Mulch keeps garden plants from freezing.
To be or feel uncomfortably cold: Aren't you freezing without a coat?
To stop functioning properly, usually temporarily: My computer screen froze when I opened the infected program.
To become motionless or immobile, as from surprise or attentiveness: I heard a sound and froze in my tracks.
To become unable to act or speak, as from fear: froze in front of the audience.

Verb. Transitive

To convert into ice.
To preserve (foods, for example) by subjecting to freezing temperatures.
To make very cold; chill.
To immobilize, as with fear or shock.
To chill with an icy or formal manner: froze me with one look.
To stop the motion or progress of: The negotiations were frozen by the refusal of either side to compromise.
To fix (prices or wages, for example) at a given or current level.

frieze (frēz)

Noun

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