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: very cold
"Put on your jacket. It's freezing outside!"
Addy rushed home through the darkening streets as if she were pushed along by the wind. She was freezing!—
Connie Porter
Connie Porter2
: being at or below the temperature at which water freezes
a forecast for freezing temperatures overnight
freezing
adverb
The weather was freezing cold. [=very cold]
freezingly
adverb
freezingly cold temperatures
Mrs. Reed's hands still lay on her work inactive: her eye of ice continued to dwell freezingly on mine.
—Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
: the temperature at which water freezes
temperatures dipping below freezing
Examples of freezing in a Sentence
Adjective
why aren't you wearing a coat, as it's freezing outside?
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Maria Yagoda, Vox, 9 May 2025
That is where the freezing wall of giant magnets come in, acting to both cool and restrain the unruly plasma.
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Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025
At the Dahlem Seed Bank, Zippel takes me through a series of rooms for preparing seeds for freezing: one for drying them, another for cleaning them of fruit material and dust.
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Adjective
Just 15 seconds into my first treatment with the freezing helmet latched to my head and with six more hours to go, the cold was unbearable.
—Maria Yagoda, Vox, 9 May 2025
That is where the freezing wall of giant magnets come in, acting to both cool and restrain the unruly plasma.
—Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 6 May 2025
Noun
Players with at least eight years of service are eligible to receive up to $20,000 annually — with a lifetime cap of $60,000 — to help cover fertility services such as egg freezing and infertility treatment, as well as adoption or surrogacy.
—Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025
At the Dahlem Seed Bank, Zippel takes me through a series of rooms for preparing seeds for freezing: one for drying them, another for cleaning them of fruit material and dust.
—Katarina Zimmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2025
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“Freezing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/freezing. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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