gefrieren — meaning in English

English meaning

• freeze verb To turn solid from cold, or to lower something's temperature until it does.
• freezing adj Extremely cold.

Senses

gefrieren is used for these senses in English:

• freeze (intransitive, copulative) Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
• freeze (transitive) To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.
• freezing (countable, and, uncountable) The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.

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.

freezing — full definition

1. adj Extremely cold.
2. noun The process by which a liquid turns solid due to cold.

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