FluentPlex

freezing

/ˈfɹiːz.ɪŋ/ adjective B1
  1. Suffering or causing frost.
  2. Very cold.
  3. The freezing point of water, zero degrees celsius.
  4. Aloof, unfriendly.
+ Save to review

From the library

I just swept her a look of freezing scorn and she got as red as a beet and spelled it wrong after all.”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 111 · C1
“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:
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1030 · C1
For three days the mercury had been five or six degrees below freezing and the steps were covered with ice.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 773 · C1
The freezing night did not feel so terrible anymore.
The Last Bus Home, p. 1 · B1

Other matches

Learn freezing in real texts

With a free account, hover any word in the library for its meaning, hear it read aloud, save words for review timed to your memory, and see how much of each book you already know.

Create free account
Words, meanings, pronunciations and translations from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); how common each word is from wordfreq. Made into this dictionary by FluentPlex.