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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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Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Moving to Texas will put you on a collision course with climate change’s dangers, as evidenced by the millions of Texans left without power in the freezing winter during the deadly 2021 energy grid crisis due to a lack of regulatory oversight.
—Chicago Tribune, 30 July 2025
Amanda Davies, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2025
Ukraine does not want to agree to any recognition of Russian dominion over occupied lands, but might accept a freezing of the effective border along the current military front lines running through four southeastern provinces.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 18 Aug. 2025
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Adjective
Dujardin's lawsuit contends operators have had this trouble since 2007, as well as problems with long lagging footage, freezing frame, blurriness and shadows obscuring pedestrians.
—Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Moving to Texas will put you on a collision course with climate change’s dangers, as evidenced by the millions of Texans left without power in the freezing winter during the deadly 2021 energy grid crisis due to a lack of regulatory oversight.
—Chicago Tribune, 30 July 2025
Noun
The Tour has also introduced ranking protection for those undergoing egg or embryo freezing, another layer of support for players returning to competitions after such procedures.
—Amanda Davies, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2025
Ukraine does not want to agree to any recognition of Russian dominion over occupied lands, but might accept a freezing of the effective border along the current military front lines running through four southeastern provinces.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 18 Aug. 2025
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“Freezing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/freezing. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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