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freeze verb

  /ˈfɹiːz/
  • (intransitive, copulative) Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
 geler, glacer, congeler
  • (figuratively) To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.
 congeler, figer, se refroidir
  • (transitive) To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.
 congeler, geler
  • (intransitive) To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.
  • (transitive) To cause someone to become motionless.
 geler, congeler
  • (intransitive, informal) To be affected by extreme cold.
  • (transitive) To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets
 geler
  • (intransitive) (of machines and software) To come to a sudden halt, stop working (functioning).
 figer
  • To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
 refroidir

freeze noun

  /ˈfɹiːz/
  • A halt of a regular operation.
  • (business, finance) A block on pay rises or on the hiring of new employees etc.
 gel
  • (computer) The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.
 gel, plantage
  • A period of intensely cold weather.
 grands froids

freezing noun

  /ˈfɹiːz.ɪŋ/
congélation
  • (countable, medicine) The action of numbing with anesthetics.
 anesthésie
  • (uncountable) The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.
 solidification

freezing adjective

  /ˈfɹiːz.ɪŋ/
  • (by extension, chiefly, hyperbole) Very cold
 polaire
freeze-up
gel
deep-freeze
surgeler
freeze up
se figer
freeze-dry
cryodessécher, lyophiliser
freeze-drying
lyophilisation
brain freeze
ganglioneuralgie sphénopalatine
freeze pop
glace à l’eau
cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
froid de canard
freeze-dried
lyophilisé
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