freezing
IPA: frˈizɪŋ
noun
- (uncountable) The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.
- (countable, medicine) The action of numbing with anesthetics.
adjective
- (literally) Suffering or causing frost
- (by extension, chiefly hyperbolic) Very cold
- (with above or below) Zero °C, the freezing point of water.
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Examples of "freezing" in Sentences
- This winter was frosty and freezing.
- In the end, freezing them was the solution.
- It is cool in the summer and freezing in the winter.
- Hakkari is freezing in the winter and hot in the summer.
- It can also be freeze dried by repeatedly freezing and thawing.
- The slow freeze method is the most practised of the embryo freezing techniques.