Deep freeze

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A chest freezer.
  2. 2
    temporary inactivity or suspension wordnet
  3. 3
    A time period of very cold weather, in which the temperatures are below freezing. Canada, US
Verb
  1. 1
    store in a deep-freeze, as for conservation wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
blastblast-freezeblightcongealdeep-freezerfreeze

Etymology

From deep + freeze. Second sense appears c. 1851 in the publication Prairie Farmer.

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