jähmettää — meaning in English

English meaning

• congeal verb To turn from a liquid into a solid, often because it has gone cold.
• freeze verb To turn solid from cold, or to lower something's temperature until it does.
• petrify verb To turn to stone: to harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.
• solidify verb To become solid, or to make something firm and solid.
• stiffen verb To make something rigid or less flexible.

Senses

jähmettää is used for these senses in English:

• congeal (transitive) To change from a liquid to solid state, perhaps due to cold; called to freeze in nontechnical usage.
• congeal (transitive) To make rigid or immobile.
• freeze (transitive) To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.
• freeze (figuratively) To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.
• petrify To immobilize with fright.
• petrify (transitive, figurative) To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrification.
• solidify (transitive) To make solid; convert into a solid body.
• stiffen (transitive) To make stiff.

congeal — full definition

1. verb To turn from a liquid into a solid, often because it has gone cold.
2. verb To thicken into a soft, jelly-like lump.
3. verb To make something stiff and unable to move.
4. verb To go hard and set firm.

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.

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