Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Past participle of freeze.
- adj. Made into, covered with, or surrounded by ice.
- adj. Very cold: the frozen North.
- adj. Preserved by freezing: frozen meat.
- adj. Rendered immobile: frozen in their tracks with fear.
- adj. Immobile, as from pain or inflammation. Used of a joint: a frozen shoulder.
- adj. Expressive of cold unfriendliness or disdain: a frozen look on their faces.
- adj. Kept at a fixed level: frozen rents.
- adj. Impossible to withdraw, sell, or liquidate: frozen assets.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Congealed by cold; converted into or covered with ice.
- Cold; frosty; frigid; subject to severe frost: as, the frozen climates of the north.
- Chill or cold in manner; void of sympathy; wanting in feeling or interest; chilling.
- Void of natural heat or vigor; numbed; hence, void of passion or emotion.
Wiktionary
- adj. In the state of that which freezes; in ice form.
- adj. immobilized
- adj. in a state such that transactions are not allowed.
- v. Past participle of freeze
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Congealed with cold; affected by freezing.
- adj. Subject to frost, or to long and severe cold; chilly.
- adj. rare Cold-hearted; unsympathetic; unyielding.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold
- adj. not convertible to cash
- adj. incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g.
- adj. not thawed
- adj. absolutely still
- adj. devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain
- adj. (used of foods) preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value
Examples
“Doing so causes the address book window to appear all white (as if it has frozen and is about to force quit itself ~ +though it's not frozen+);”
“I can have my order delivered fresh or frozen and usually choose frozen since it’s easier to move it to the freezer when it arrives….and really, when you’re receiving 100-200 pounds of beef at a time, there is no real point to getting it fresh – you can’t eat it fast enough so it’ll spoil…..frozen works for us!”
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“She took a call on her radio, her expression frozen in place.”
“If you look at all the other stuff called 'Blue-Gray,' this was the grandfather of all the other Blue-Gray things in town," said Durden Dean, the president before Kyser, who has had his title frozen by the association since 2005.”
“Ariana stared with her expression frozen, stunned by his bitter words.”
“She turned to him with a white face, her expression frozen.”
“Molly looked at him and saw that he was staring at the monitor, his expression frozen.”
“Zenith by fourtie degrees: for in effect, they are within three or foure degrees of that which they call the frozen Zone, and as I saide, fourtie degrees from the burning Zone, whereby it followeth, that there is some other cause then the Climate or the Sonnes perpendicular reflexion, that should cause the Ethiopians great blacknesse.”
“Essentially, Ayala has unilaterally announced that the ISSSTE reform will remain 'frozen' until after the upcoming presidential and congressional elections because this is too important an electoral cycle to disrupt with reform.”
“A little plug here for Wisconsin frozen custard also made fresh every day, scooped from a bucket and mix-ins of the day added fresh in small batches to vanilla custard.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘frozen’.
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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zen
dizen, glazen, brazen, bedizen, Zinzendorf, zenith, wizen, denizen, mizenmast, mizen, lozenge, dozen and 12 more...
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I am : cold
Cold adjectives.
cold, frigid, freezing, glacial, gelid, chill, crisp, cool, frosty, nippy, icy, brisk and 13 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Library Reference Desk Words
computer, reference, desk, phone, im, chat, e-mail, catalog, citation, style, transfer, number and 133 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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The Most Beautiful Words in the Engli...
mellifluous, obscure, star-crossed, undulating, solstice, messiah, audacious, solace, twilight, wanderlust, lovelorn, byzantine and 219 more...
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Words for ice and snow
Environmental Ice and Snow
(excluding all the food ice)ice, icicle, frazil, frasil, sleet, slush, snow, flurry, snowfall, freeze, flash-freeze, quick-freeze and 618 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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One more switchback
Tip of the hat to Stephen, who always tells me "only one more switchback" as we go up the trail. Usually it is a lie, but it still works!
switchback, heavens to murgat..., prosody, catarrh, ice storm, existential, predicament, intermingle, comingle, stolid, zeitgeist, bibliophage and 146 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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fragile/lovely words
incandescent, scintillating, sublime, stellar, fragile, bones, illuminate, luscious, celestial, crepuscular, penumbra, wanderlust and 111 more...
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Theme Prompts
There's a fiction meme (mostly on Livejournal) where writers use words as a prompt for a short story snippet. I've been collecting the words that show up on these lists as prompts for creative writ...
white, black, gray, red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, violet, queen, king, prince and 407 more...
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Words that are also songs
Totally ripped off from John.
tribute, sister, mother, pain, plowed, peaches, lump, kitty, drive, warning, duvet, clocks and 46 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for frozen.
lampbane "You only see what your eyes want to see
How can life be what you want it to be
You're frozen
When your heart's not open"
Jan 25, 2007