the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > make cold [verb (transitive)] > give sensation of cold to > cause to perish with cold (2)
transitive. To cause to die of cold (also to starve to death); to benumb with cold, to freeze; (also hyperbolically) to make extremely cold. Now…
transitive. colloquial. In past participle with to be: to be brought near to death (from cold); to be extremely cold. Cf. sense 1b.