Erstarren — 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.
• freezing adj Extremely cold.
• 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.

Senses

Erstarren 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.
• freeze (transitive) To cause someone to become motionless.
• freeze (figuratively) To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.
• freezing (countable, and, uncountable) The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.
• petrify To immobilize with fright.
• solidify (transitive) To make solid; convert into a solid body.

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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