freezing1 adjective, adverbfreezing2 noun
freezingfreezing1 /ˈfriːzɪŋ/ ●●● S3 adjective, adverb 
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a freezing cold day in January
- Can't we go inside? It's freezing out here.
- Close the window - it's freezing in here.
- His friends pulled him from the freezing water.
- How much longer do we have to wait out her? I'm freezing.
- It's absolutely freezing in the basement.
- My flimsy jacket was inadequate for the freezing Japanese weather.
- Supporters queued for tickets all night in freezing conditions.
- The little children sat in rows in the freezing classroom.
- The river is freezing cold this time of year.
Longman Language Activatorplace/room
· I love being in a warm bed in a cold room.· He waited an hour for the train on a cold platform.it's cold · Why is it always so cold in here?
cold in a pleasant way, especially when the weather is hot: · Medicine should always be stored in a cool place.it's cool: · It's much cooler over here in the shade.
a little too cold for you to feel comfortable: · They have to get washed and dressed in a chilly bathroom.it's chilly: · It's chilly in the house, even when it's sunny outside.
British /drafty American a room that is draughty has cold air blowing into it from outside: · The two women live in a drafty old farmhouse.it's draughty/drafty: · It's so draughty in here. Is there a window open?
extremely cold, so that you feel very uncomfortable: · The little children sat in rows in the freezing classroom.it's freezing: · It's absolutely freezing in the basement.
liquid/object/surface having a low temperature: · I wanted to swim, but the water was too cold.· a cold stone floor
extremely cold: · His friends pulled him from the freezing water.freezing cold: · The river is freezing cold this time of year.
pleasantly cold but not very cold: · Ruth put her cool hand on my burning forehead.· I slid into bed between cool white sheets.
person feeling cold: · Dad, I'm cold. Can I put the heater on?· Your hands are really cold!feel cold: · He woke up in the middle of the night feeling cold.look cold: · Come and sit by the fire. You look cold.
also frozen British spoken feeling very cold and uncomfortable: · How much longer do we have to wait out her? I'm freezing.· You look absolutely frozen.
to shake a little because you are cold: · I was shivering in my thin sleeping bag.shiver with cold: · They were forced to wait outside for hours, shivering with cold.
to be so cold that your skin turns slightly blue: · He was huddled into his coat, his face blue with cold.· Look at her. The poor girl's quite blue with cold.
British /have goosebumps American to have small raised areas on your skin because you are cold: · She was shivering, her arms and legs covered in goosepimples.· Why don't you put something else on? You've got goosebumps.
if your teeth are chattering you are so cold that your teeth keep knocking together and you cannot stop them: · Her teeth were chattering with cold.
cold weather · I'd hate to live somewhere where it's always cold.· The car is difficult to start, especially on cold winter mornings.· It's so cold. I wish I was back home in Morocco.
pleasantly cold, especially compared to the heat of the sun: · It gets much cooler in the evenings.· We stopped at a cool, grassy area, under the shade of the trees.
a little cold, in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable: · It was getting chilly outside, so we went back into the house.· Despite the chilly autumn afternoon, she was wearing a thin cotton dress.
especially spoken extremely cold: · Supporters queued for tickets all night in freezing conditions.it is freezing: · Can't we go inside? It's freezing out here.freezing cold: · a freezing cold day in January
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
We were freezing cold in the tent last night.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
We were freezing cold in the tent last night. (=higher than the temperature at which water freezes) Tonight, temperatures should be just above freezing.
Tonight, temperatures should be just above freezing. (=lower than the temperature at which water freezes) In winter, temperatures dip to 40 degrees below freezing.
In winter, temperatures dip to 40 degrees below freezing.· Take your gloves – it’s freezing cold out there.
· Flights were cancelled due to freezing fog.
(=extremely cold rain)· the icy wind and freezing rain
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· It was freezing cold in all the rooms.· It was cascading rain and freezing cold.· It was freezing cold and we didn't go inside anywhere.· Then, in the freezing cold of London in February 1969, his feet swelled up.· In the freezing cold and pitch dark, families were driven to clinging to the roof.· We stayed in a frontier hotel about 6,000 feet up, in a night of freezing cold.
· It really seems as if some drivers fall prey to a death wish when freezing fog descends.· Creeping in from both sides was a freezing fog.· Both pile-ups happened in freezing fog.· Police blamed the crash on drivers going too fast and too close in freezing fog.· As she stood waiting for a taxi a speeding car appeared out of the freezing fog.· Carbon-dioxide ice smoked all around, making a freezing fog that glowed eerily where the rising sun was trapped in its skeins.· Police and motoring organisations urged drivers to keep their speed down and take extra care as freezing fog gripped the country.
· The snow may crust at night, due to outward radiation, even thought the air temperature remains well above freezing point.· This is the freezing point of water at one atmosphere.· These are elevation of boiling point, depression of freezing point, osmotic pressure.· Even in summer, the temperature rarely rises above freezing point.· It is in fact a liquid cooled below its freezing point without crystallising.· An electric fan heater maintains a temperature just above freezing point.· The depression of freezing point can be determined experimentally using the apparatus shown in figure 6.38.· A cooling curve is plotted and the freezing point determined.
· When we go out into the freezing temperatures tonight, we know that we should be doing something.· Jubilant, most gave up the idea of protesting in the freezing temperatures again, but approximately 1,000 persisted with their plan.
· I got such a shock that I toppled over sideways, ending up chest deep in freezing water.· If you haven't already done so, remove and drain pumps so that freezing water doesn't damage them.· The crewmen had to be pulled from the freezing water by colleagues in an inflatable boat.· He had managed to dislodge the noose from his neck and save himself by jumping into the freezing water below.
WORD FAMILYnounfreezefreezerfreezingantifreezeadjectivefreezingfrozenverbfreezeadverbfreezing
1extremely cold: It’s freezing in this house. Can’t I turn on the heating? We were freezing cold in the tent last night.2below the temperature at which water turns to ice: freezing fogfreezing1 adjective, adverbfreezing2 noun
freezingfreez‧ing2 ●●○ noun [uncountable] EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- A few rain squalls perhaps, but the temperature was well above freezing.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=higher than the temperature at which water freezes) Tonight, temperatures should be just above freezing.
Tonight, temperatures should be just above freezing. (=lower than the temperature at which water freezes) In winter, temperatures dip to 40 degrees below freezing.
In winter, temperatures dip to 40 degrees below freezing.· Take your gloves – it’s freezing cold out there.
· Flights were cancelled due to freezing fog.
(=extremely cold rain)· the icy wind and freezing rain
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
- Temperatures remained below freezing during the afternoon.
- And when the temperature goes much below freezing, the EV1 barely goes at all.
- It roots out vines, truffles for lemon trees painfully heated by charcoal to three degrees above freezing.
- It should show frost when outside temperatures are below freezing.
- Temperatures had, for several days, been near 00F at night, and it was well below freezing now.
- Thanks to the warming influence of the Gulf Stream, the climate is also mild, temperatures rarely dropping much below freezing.
- The snow may crust at night, due to outward radiation, even thought the air temperature remains well above freezing point.
- When she complained to a doctor that it was down below freezing she could not have been nearer the mark.
- Yet it was not really cold here; the temperature was well above freezing point.
WORD FAMILYnounfreezefreezerfreezingantifreezeadjectivefreezingfrozenverbfreezeadverbfreezing
above/below freezing above or below the temperature at which water freezes: It was well below freezing last night.