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freeze noun

  /ˈfɹiːz/
  • (business, finance) A block on pay rises or on the hiring of new employees etc.
 blocco

freeze verb

  /ˈfɹiːz/
  • (intransitive, copulative) Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
 gelare, ghiacciare
  • (transitive) To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.
  • (transitive) To cause someone to become motionless.
  • (figuratively) To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.
  • (transitive) To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets
 congelare
  • (intransitive) To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.
 gelare, congelare

freezing

siberiano

freezing adjective

  /ˈfɹiːz.ɪŋ/
  • (by extension, chiefly, hyperbole) Very cold
 glaciale

freezing noun

  /ˈfɹiːz.ɪŋ/
  • (countable, medicine) The action of numbing with anesthetics.
 anestesia
  • (countable, and, uncountable) The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.
 solidificazione
deep-freezing
surgelamento
quick-freezing
surgelamento
freezing point
punto di congelamento
freezing rain
pioggia congelante
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