Frozen
//ˈfɹoʊzn̩// adj, verb
adj, verb ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 past participle of freeze form-of, participle, past
"The mammoth was frozen shortly after death."
Adjective
- 1 Having undergone the process of freezing; in ice form.
"The mammoth has been frozen for ten thousand years."
- 2 Immobilized. figuratively
"I just stood frozen in terror as the robber pointed at me with his gun."
- 3 Of an account or assets, in a state such that transactions are not allowed.
- 4 Retaining an older, obsolete syntax of an earlier version of a language, which now operates only on a specific word or phrase.
""Dice" is a frozen plural."
Adjective
- 1 incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. ‘frozen prices’ wordnet
- 2 not convertible to cash wordnet
- 3 (used of foods) preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value wordnet
- 4 turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold wordnet
- 5 devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain wordnet
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- 6 not thawed wordnet
- 7 absolutely still wordnet
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More examples"The sea ice is highly variable - frozen solid during cold, calm weather and broken up in large areas of open water during storms."
Etymology
From Middle English frozen, frosen, ifrozen, variant of froren, ifroren ("frozen"; > see frorn), past participle of Middle English fresen, freosen (“to freeze”). By surface analysis, freeze + -n.
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