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change to ice; "The water in the bowl froze" stop moving or become immobilized; "When he saw the police car he froze" be cold; "I could freeze to death in this office when the air conditioning is turned on" cause to freeze; "Freeze the leftover food" stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it; "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country" be very cold, below the freezing point; "It is freezing in Kalamazoo" the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid change from a liquid to a solid when cold; "Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit" weather cold enough to cause freezing prohibit the conversion or use of (assets); "Blocked funds"; "Freeze the assets of this hostile government" anesthetize by cold an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement; "a halt in the arms race"; "a nuclear freeze" suddenly behave coldly and formally; "She froze when she saw her ex-husband" fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level; "a freeze on hiring"
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a method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes
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Freeze drying (also known as Lyophilization) is a dehydration process typically used to preserve a perishable material, or to make the material more convenient for transport. Freeze drying works by freezing the material and then reducing the surrounding pressure to allow the frozen water in the material to sublimate directly from the solid phase to gas. ...
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1. See freezing. 2. The condition that exists when, over a widespread area, the surface temperature of the air remains below freezing (0
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| freeze |
To attempt to retain possession of the ball or puck for an extended period of time without making an effort to score.
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