verstijven — meaning in English

English meaning

• freeze verb To turn solid from cold, or to lower something's temperature until it does.
• harden verb To become hard, or to make something hard or harder.

Senses

verstijven is used for these senses in English:

• freeze (transitive) To cause someone to become motionless.
• harden (intransitive) To become hard.
• harden (ambitransitive, phonology) To become or make (a consonant) more fortis; to (cause to) undergo fortition.

freeze — full definition

1. verb To turn solid from cold, or to lower something's temperature until it does.
2. verb To suddenly become motionless, often from fear or surprise.
3. verb Of a machine, program, or system, to stop responding.
4. verb To stop something, such as prices, wages, or assets, from changing or moving.
5. noun A period of very cold weather, or an official halt on something changing.

harden — full definition

1. verb To become hard, or to make something hard or harder.
2. verb To become or make someone more resistant, tough, or emotionally unaffected.

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