jähmettää — meaning in English
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English meaning
- congeal verb To change from a liquid to solid state, perhaps due to cold; called to freeze in nontechnical usage.
- 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
- verb To change from a liquid to solid state, perhaps due to cold; called to freeze in nontechnical usage.
- verb To coagulate, make curdled or semi-solid such as gel or jelly.
- verb To make rigid or immobile.
- verb To become congealed, solidify.
freeze — full definition
- verb To turn solid from cold, or to lower something's temperature until it does.
- verb To suddenly become motionless, often from fear or surprise.
- verb Of a machine, program, or system, to stop responding.
- verb To stop something, such as prices, wages, or assets, from changing or moving.
- noun A period of very cold weather, or an official halt on something changing.