freeze

freeze
freeze [fri:z]
(preterite froze, past participle frozen)
1. intransitive verb
   a. [liquid] geler ; [food] se congeler
• to freeze to death mourir de froid
• the lake has frozen le lac est gelé
   b. ( = stop) se figer
• he froze (in his tracks) il est resté figé sur place
• freeze! pas un geste !
2. transitive verb
   a. [+ liquid] geler ; [+ food] congeler ; (industrially) surgeler
   b. [+ assets, credit, wages, prices] geler ; [+ bank account] bloquer
3. noun
   a. ( = cold period) the big freeze of 1948 la vague de froid de 1948
   b. [of prices, credit] gel m
• a wage freeze un gel des salaires
• a freeze on nuclear weapons testing un gel des essais nucléaires
4. compounds
► freeze-dry transitive verb lyophiliser
► freeze-frame noun [of film, video] arrêt m sur image transitive verb
• to freeze-frame a video faire un arrêt sur image
► freeze over intransitive verb
[lake, river] geler ; [windscreen] givrer
• the river has frozen over la rivière est gelée
* * *
[friːz] 1.
noun
1) Meteorology gelées fpl
2) Economics, Finance (of credits, assets) gel m (on de); (of prices, wages) gel m, blocage m
2.
transitive verb (prét froze; pp frozen)
1) congeler [food]; [cold weather] geler [liquid, pipes]
2) Economics, Finance bloquer, geler
3) Cinema arrêter
4) (anaesthetize) insensibiliser
5) Computing figer
3.
intransitive verb (prét froze; pp frozen)
1) (become solid) [water, pipes] geler; [food] se congeler
2) (feel cold) geler

to be freezing to death — mourir de froid

3) (become motionless) se figer (with de)

freeze! — pas un geste!

4) (become haughty) devenir glacial
4.
impersonal verb Meteorology geler
Phrasal Verbs:

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