verb / noun
freeze
FREEZ/friːz/
To become rigid and immobile through extreme cooling.
Water in the shallow metal tray freezes inside the freezer.
Etymology
Old English freosan meant “turn to ice,” describing what happens to the substance itself. The later transitive use lets freeze also describe causing something to harden through cold.
In context
it's wise to save leftover wine for cooking my tip is to freeze the remaining wine in freezer bags or ice cube trays
More examples
- The puddles froze solid overnight.
- We freeze leftover soup in small containers.
- A hard freeze turns the pond's surface to ice.
Forms
freeze · freezes · froze · frozen · freezing
freezer noun — An appliance that keeps food below freezing.
Similar words
- solidify
- Become solid, without necessarily being cooled or forming ice.
- congeal
- Become thick or semisolid rather than necessarily freezing solid.