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frozen [ˈfrəʊzən] vb the past participle of freeze adj
1. turned into or covered with ice 2. obstructed or blocked by ice 3. killed, injured, or stiffened by extreme cold 4. (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) (of a region or climate) icy or snowy 5. (Cookery) (of food) preserved by a freezing process 6. (Economics) a. (of prices, wages, etc.) arbitrarily pegged at a certain level b. (of business assets) not convertible into cash, as by government direction or business conditions 7. frigid, unfeeling, or disdainful in manner 8. motionless or unyielding he was frozen with horror frozenly adv frozenness n ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
frozen adjective 2. chilled, cold, iced, refrigerated, ice-cold frozen desserts like ice cream 3. ice-cold, freezing, numb, very cold, frigid, frozen stiff, chilled to the marrow I'm frozen out here. 4. motionless, rooted, petrified, stock-still, turned to stone, stopped dead in your tracks She was frozen in horror. Translations frozen [ˈfrəʊzn] A. PP of freeze frozen ptp of freeze adj ground, land, earth → gefroren; pipe → eingefroren; lock → zugefroren; frozen hard → hart gefroren; frozen (over) (lake, river) → zugefroren; frozen solid → ganz zugefroren (for preservation, Cook) vegetables, meat, meal → tiefgekühlt; (Med) embryo, sperm → eingefroren; frozen yoghurt → gefrorener Jog(h)urt; to keep something frozen → etw eingefroren lassen (inf: = very cold) person, part of body → eiskalt; I’m frozen → mir ist eiskalt; to be frozen stiff (person, part of body) → steif gefroren sein; frozen to death or to the bone → völlig durchgefroren ? marrow (= rigid) person, animal → starr; frozen in horror/with fear → starr or steif vor Schreck/vor Angst; I stood or was frozen to the spot → ich stand wie angewurzelt da; a village frozen in time → ein Dorf, in dem die Zeit stehen geblieben ist; he felt as if he was frozen in time → es war ihm, als sei die Zeit stehen geblieben (Econ) prices, wages → eingefroren; (Fin) account → eingefroren frozen: frozen assets pl (Fin) → festliegendes Kapital, eingefrorene Guthaben pl frozen food frozen [ˈfrəʊzn] 1. pp of freeze 2. adj (food) → congelato/a; (industrially deep frozen) → surgelato/a (Econ) (assets) → bloccato/a I'm frozen stiff → sono gelato fino alle ossa frozen [ˈfrəʊzn] 1. pp of freeze How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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At times they came onto bare fields and the sledge-runners rattled over frozen lumps of earth. Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. But there remain a few undaunted sun-hunters who, in spite of frozen stays and ice-jammed connecting-rods, still haunt the blue empyrean. |
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