| 单词 | freeze to death | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto freeze to death  a.  To be affected by, or have the sensation of, extreme cold; to feel very chill; to suffer the loss of vital heat; to die by frost. So  to freeze to death. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > be cold			[verb (intransitive)]		 > be cold or have sensation of cold > perish with cold freeze1390 starve1602 perish1750 bestormed1837 1390    J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 38  				Wether that he frese or swete..He woll ben idel all aboute. 1601    J. Marston et al.  Iacke Drums Entertainm.  ii. sig. D4v  				Powre Wine, sound Musick, let our bloods not freeze. 1623    W. Shakespeare  & J. Fletcher Henry VIII  i. iv. 21  				Nay, you must not freeze .       View more context for this quotation 1681    S. Colvil Mock Poem 		(1751)	 37  				A..passage..he finds by the north-west, Where Davies freezed to his rest. 1698    J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 318  				We might sooner have frozen than kept our Innate Heat entire. 1748    Acct. Voy. for Discov. North-west Passage I. 176  				By being thus hung in the Air, the Rabbit..freezes to Death. 1809    S. T. Coleridge Three Graves  iii, in  Friend 21 Sept. 91  				Her limbs did creep and freeze. 1820    J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in  Lamia & Other Poems 84  				The sculptur'd dead, on each side, seem to freeze. to freeze to death  6.  To affect with frost; to stiffen, harden, injure, kill, etc. by chilling; to change into or to (something) and (figurative) to bring into a certain state by chilling. Also,  to freeze to death: rare in active. Occasionally to allow to freeze. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > make cold			[verb (transitive)]		 > affect or injure with intense cold or frost frostbite1574 frostnip1600 singe1600 freezea1616 frost1623 touch1794 a1616    W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew 		(1623)	  iv. i. 33  				My Master and mistris are almost frozen to  death.       View more context for this quotation 1637    J. Milton Comus 16  				That snakie headed Gorgon sheild..Wherewith she [sc. Minerva] freez'd her foes to congeal'd stone? 1700    J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite  iii, in  Fables 79  				Sense fled before him [Death], what he touch'd he froze. 1704    Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. Ded. sig. aiiv  				Severe Winters, that freez..and cut off many hopeful plants. 1748    Acct. Voy. for Discov. North-west Passage I. 163  				And if close, the Snow lying there must freeze the Leg. 1855    C. Kingsley Heroes 		(1868)	  ii. 23  				Will she not freeze me too into stone? 1878    H. B. Stowe Poganuc People xi. 115  				He [sc.the bird] must have chilled his beak and frozen his toes as he sat there. < as lemmas  | 
	
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