Synonyms:
freeze, freezing
Meaning: the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid
Usage examples
Freezing Ice Cream.
This separate life, this freezing loneliness, she had had enough of it.
She sat long, with the letters in her lap, thinking--and unconsciously freezing.
A roaring fire in the fireplace could not prevent the ink from freezing on the pen.
A long, cold, miserable march it was too, hurrying in the daytime and freezing in our bivouacs in the snow and woods at night.
So not to take any chances he drew up at the side of the road and rested there, though it was freezing hard and a north-east wind howling.
Here is advice that will help you protect yourself and your family against the hazards of winter storms--blizzards, heavy snows, ice storms, freezing rain, or sleet.
I slept on board the ship and found it colder than the camp--the cabins were below freezing all night and the only warmth existed in the cheery spirit of the company.
Frost--which of course is but frozen dew--at this season of the year will form on a still autumn night, although the atmosphere at some distance above the ground is some degrees above the freezing point.
In Japan, one of the most popular of the No-dances, the Hachinoki, composed during the Ashikaga period, is based upon the story of an impoverished knight, who, on a freezing night, in lack of fuel for a fire, cuts his cherished plants in order to entertain a wandering friar.