freezing

== English == === Etymology === By surface analysis, freeze +‎ -ing. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfɹiːz.ɪŋ/ Rhymes: -iːzɪŋ === Adjective === freezing (comparative more freezing, superlative most freezing) (literally) Suffering or causing frost. (by extension, chiefly hyperbolic) Very cold. (with above or below) The freezing point of water, zero degrees celsius. ==== Synonyms ==== (literally): frosty, frigorific (very cold): ice-cold, icy, cutting ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Noun === freezing (countable and uncountable, plural freezings) (countable and uncountable) The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature. 2015, Kevin Revolinski, 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Madison (page 116) […] and the sloping collection of fractured rocks—known as talus—that tumbled down from the quartzite bluffs during the repeated freezings and unfreezings of the last Ice Age. (countable, medicine) The action of numbing with anesthetics. ==== Synonyms ==== frost ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === freezing present participle and gerund of freeze ==== Derived terms ==== freezing point