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Freeze \Freeze\, n.
The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.
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Freeze \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.
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2. To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat;
to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
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A faint, cold fear runs through my veins,
That almost freezes up the heat of life. --Shak.
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{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.
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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.
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Freeze \Freeze\ (fr[=e]z), n. (Arch.)
A frieze. [Obs.]
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Freeze \Freeze\, v. i. [imp. {Froze} (fr[=o]z); p. p. {Frozen}
(fr[=o]"z'n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Freezing}.] [OE. fresen,
freosen, AS. fre['o]san; 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. prushv[=a]
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.
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Note: Water freezes at 32[deg] above zero by Fahrenheit's
thermometer; mercury freezes at 40[deg] below zero.
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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.
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{To freeze up} (Fig.), to become formal and cold in demeanor.
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