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单词 to freeze to death
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to 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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