| 释义 |
[ free-zing ] / ˈfri zɪŋ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR freezing ON THESAURUS.COM
adjective(of temperatures) approaching, at, or below the freezing point. extremely or uncomfortably cold; chilled: We were both freezing and welcomed the hot cocoa. beginning to freeze or partially frozen; in the process of being or becoming frozen. Origin of freezingFirst recorded in 1605–15; freeze + -ing2 OTHER WORDS FROM freezingfreez·ing·ly, adverbWords nearby freezingfreeze one's blood, freezeout, freezer, freezer burn, freeze-up, freezing, freezing drizzle, freezing injunction, freezing mixture, freezing point, freezing rain Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for freezingThe “waters of Lake Minnetonka” may have been purifying, but they were also freezing. Speed Read: The Juiciest Bits From the History of ‘Purple Rain’|Jennie Yabroff|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST They ended up crawling for much of the journey, scaling electric fences and fending off wild animals in freezing conditions. How ‘Titanic ’Helped This Brave Young Woman Escape North Korea’s Totalitarian State|Lizzie Crocker|October 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST Yeah,” he said, “they called that pitch the freezing slider, because it just froze Horton solid. A Ghostwriter Steps Out of the Shadows|Bill Morris|September 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST How about staging large-scale NATO military maneuvers at the border and freezing the assets of the kleptocracy? This Really Is Obama's Moment of Truth|Jonathan Alter|September 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The water is freezing, the people are fat, and the sun will kill you. Why I Hate The Beach|P. J. O’Rourke|July 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST He was weakened, too, but the freezing cold of the desert night aroused all his latent force. The Lions of the Lord|Harry Leon Wilson It was packed in solid, and then permitted to freeze by leaving the door and two windows open during the freezing weather. Brother Against Brother|Oliver Optic That was a freezing thought which had not occurred to him during his search for her. The Moon Rock|Arthur J. Rees In this way the human travelers usually derived warmth and shelter enough from the horses to keep them from freezing to death. Captains of Industry|James Parton What effect the absence of land produces, on the freezing of the ocean, it is not easy to say. The Plurality of Worlds|William Whewell
British Dictionary definitions for freezingCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to freezingpolar, chilly, icy, frigid, biting, glacial, wintry, frosty, numbing, arctic, penetrating, raw, cutting, bitter, chill, chilled, gelid, nippy, snappy, shivery |