freezing
/ˈfɹiːz.ɪŋ/ noun B1- The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature. · The temp in the mountains may/can fall below freezing at this time of year.
- The action of numbing with anesthetics.
Plural freezings
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I just swept her a look of freezing scorn and she got as red as a beet and spelled it wrong after all.”
“I never joke with bankers,” said Monte Cristo in a freezing manner, which repelled impertinence; and he turned to the door, just as the valet de chambre announced:
For three days the mercury had been five or six degrees below freezing and the steps were covered with ice.
The freezing night did not feel so terrible anymore.
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