freezing

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freezing (comparative more freezing, superlative most freezing)

Positive
freezing

Comparative
more freezing

Superlative
most freezing
  1. (literally) Suffering or causing frost
  2. (by extension) Very cold

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frosty

see frosty

very cold

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Singular
freezing

Plural
countable and uncountable; plural freezings

freezing (countable and uncountable; plural freezings)

  1. (uncountable, physics, chemistry) The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.
  2. (countable, medicine) The action of numbing with anesthetics.

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the change in state of a substance from liquid to solid on cooling
the action of numbing with anesthetics
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[edit] Verb

freezing

  1. Present participle of freeze.

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