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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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Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 23 Oct. 2025
Prepare for the freezing weather All residents in counties included on the freeze warning should take precautions to ensure people, pets, plants and pipes are not impacted by the cold.
—Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 23 Oct. 2025
Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 26 Oct. 2025
But the Kruppas opted to use intrauterine insemination, or IUI, a procedure that had been around in some form for centuries but had only recently become common thanks to advances in freezing and banking sperm.
—Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
These tender plants can’t survive freezing temperatures, so they are often grown as annuals in areas with cold winters.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 23 Oct. 2025
Prepare for the freezing weather All residents in counties included on the freeze warning should take precautions to ensure people, pets, plants and pipes are not impacted by the cold.
—Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
The pressure rhythm was adjusted to an uneven triangle pattern to better match the freezing process.
—Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 26 Oct. 2025
But the Kruppas opted to use intrauterine insemination, or IUI, a procedure that had been around in some form for centuries but had only recently become common thanks to advances in freezing and banking sperm.
—Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
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“Freezing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/freezing. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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