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freezing

Pronunciation: /ˈfɹiːz.ɪŋ/

The English word “freezing” has 6 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Suffering or causing frost.
  2. Very cold.
  3. The freezing point of water, zero degrees celsius.
  4. Aloof, unfriendly.

noun

  1. The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.
  2. The action of numbing with anesthetics.

Etymology

By surface analysis, freeze + -ing.

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