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fro·zen

(frō′zən)

Past participle of freeze.

adj.

1. Made into, covered with, or surrounded by ice.

2. Very cold: the frozen North.

3. Preserved by freezing: frozen meat.

a. Rendered immobile: frozen in their tracks with fear.

b. Immobile, as from pain or inflammation. Used of a joint: a frozen shoulder.

5. Expressive of cold unfriendliness or disdain: a frozen look on their faces.

a. Kept at a fixed level: frozen rents.

b. Impossible to withdraw, sell, or liquidate: frozen assets.

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frozen

(ˈfrəʊzən)

the past participle of freeze

adj

1. turned into or covered with ice

2. obstructed or blocked by ice

3. killed, injured, or stiffened by extreme cold

4. (Physical Geography) (of a region or climate) icy or snowy

5. (Cookery) (of food) preserved by a freezing process

6. (Economics)

a. (of prices, wages, etc) arbitrarily pegged at a certain level

b. (of business assets) not convertible into cash, as by government direction or business conditions

7. frigid, unfeeling, or disdainful in manner

8. motionless or unyielding: he was frozen with horror.

ˈfrozenly adv

ˈfrozenness n

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fro•zen

(ˈfroʊ zən)

v.

1. pp. of freeze.

adj.

2. turned into ice.

3. covered with ice, as a stream.

4. frigid; very cold.

5. obstructed by ice, as pipes.

6. chilly or cold in manner; unfeeling: a frozen stare.

7. preserved by quick-freezing: frozen foods.

8. (of food) prepared by chilling or freezing.

9. (esp. of a drink) mixed with ice and puréed in an electric blender.

10. (of an asset) not convertible into cash without substantial loss.

11. not permitted to be changed or incapable of being altered; fixed: frozen rents.

fro′zen•ly, adv.

fro′zen•ness, n.

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Adj.	1.	frozen - turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold; "the frozen North"; "frozen pipes"; "children skating on a frozen brook" cold - having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration; "a cold climate"; "a cold room"; "dinner has gotten cold"; "cold fingers"; "if you are cold, turn up the heat"; "a cold beer" unmelted - not melted; "streets unpassable because of piles of unmelted snow" unfrozen - not frozen; "unfrozen ground"
	2.	frozen - absolutely still; "frozen with horror"; "they stood rooted in astonishment" rooted, stock-still nonmoving, unmoving - not in motion
	3.	frozen - devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain; "a frigid greeting"; "got a frosty reception"; "a frozen look on their faces"; "a glacial handshake"; "icy stare"; "wintry smile" frosty, icy, wintry, glacial, frigid cold - extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion; "a cold unfriendly nod"; "a cold and unaffectionate person"; "a cold impersonal manner"; "cold logic"; "the concert left me cold"
	4.	frozen - not thawed unmelted - not melted; "streets unpassable because of piles of unmelted snow"
	5.	frozen - (used of foods) preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value; "frozen foods" flash-frozen, quick-frozen preserved - prevented from decaying or spoiling and prepared for future use
	6.	frozen - not convertible to cash; "frozen assets" nondisposable - (of assets) unavailable for use
	7.	frozen - incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. "frozen prices"; "living on fixed incomes" fixed unchangeable - not changeable or subject to change; "a fixed and unchangeable part of the germ plasm"-Ashley Montagu; "the unchangeable seasons"; "one of the unchangeable facts of life"

frozen

adjective

1. icy, hard, solid, frosted, arctic, ice-covered, icebound the frozen bleakness of the Far North

2. chilled, cold, iced, refrigerated, ice-cold frozen desserts like ice cream

3. ice-cold, freezing, numb, very cold, frigid, frozen stiff, chilled to the marrow I'm frozen out here.

4. motionless, rooted, petrified, stock-still, turned to stone, stopped dead in your tracks She was frozen in horror.

5. fixed, held, stopped, limited, suspended, pegged (of prices) Prices would be frozen and wages raised.

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Translations

مُتَجَمِّد

zmrzlý

frossen

gefroren tiefgefroren

καταψυγμένος κατεψυγμένος παγωμένος

congelado congelada

jäätynytpakastettupakastunutjäädytetty

gelé congelé

zamrznut

fagyott

frosinn

congelato gelato ghiacciato p.p. di to freeze

凍った

언

замёрзший замороженный

zmrznutý

zamrznjen

djupfryst

ซึ่งเป็นน้ำแข็ง

donmuş

đông lạnh

冰冻的冻结的

frozen

[ˈfrəʊzn]

A. PP of freeze

B. ADJ

1. [food] → congelado

2. we're simply frozen → estamos totalmente helados
I'm frozen stiff → estoy helado, estoy muerto de frío

C. CPD frozen assets NPL (Fin) → activo msing congelado

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

frozen

[ˈfrəʊz^ən]

pp of freeze

adj

[food] → congelé(e)
frozen chips → des frites surgelées

[ground, liquid] → gelé(e)

(= very cold) [person, hands, face] → gelé(e)
to be frozen to the bone → être gelé(e) jusqu'aux osfrozen assets npl → avoirs mpl gelésfrozen food n (bought) → aliments mpl surgelés; (frozen at home) → aliments mpl congelésfrozen food compartment n → partie f congélateur

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

frozen

ptp of freeze

adj

ground, land, earth → gefroren; pipe → eingefroren; lock → zugefroren; frozen hard → hart gefroren; frozen (over) (lake, river) → zugefroren; frozen solid → ganz zugefroren

(for preservation, Cook) vegetables, meat, meal → tiefgekühlt; (Med) embryo, sperm → eingefroren; frozen yoghurt → gefrorener Jog(h)urt; to keep something frozen → etw eingefroren lassen

(inf: = very cold) person, part of body → eiskalt; I’m frozen → mir ist eiskalt; to be frozen stiff (person, part of body) → steif gefroren sein; frozen to death or to the bone → völlig durchgefroren ? marrow

(= rigid) person, animal → starr; frozen in horror/with fear → starr or steif vor Schreck/vor Angst; I stood or was frozen to the spot → ich stand wie angewurzelt da; a village frozen in time → ein Dorf, in dem die Zeit stehen geblieben ist; he felt as if he was frozen in time → es war ihm, als sei die Zeit stehen geblieben

(Econ) prices, wages → eingefroren; (Fin) account → eingefroren

frozen

frozen assets

pl (Fin) → festliegendes Kapital, eingefrorene Guthaben pl

frozen food

n → Tiefkühlkost f; frozen compartment → Tiefkühlfach nt, → Gefrierfach nt

frozen shoulder

n (Med) → steife Schulter

frozen wastes

pl → ewiges Eis

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frozen

[ˈfrəʊzn]

1. pp of freeze

2. adj (food) → congelato/a; (industrially deep frozen) → surgelato/a (Econ) (assets) → bloccato/a
I'm frozen stiff → sono gelato fino alle ossa

freeze

(friːz) – past tense froze (frəuz) : past participle frozen (ˈfrəuzn) – verb

1. to make into or become ice. It's so cold that the river has frozen over.

2. (of weather) to be at or below freezing-point. If it freezes again tonight all my plants will die.

3. to make or be very cold. If you had stayed out all night in the snow you might have frozen to death (= died of exposure to cold).

4. to make (food) very cold in order to preserve it. You can freeze the rest of that food and eat it later.

5. to make or become stiff, still or unable to move (with fear etc). She froze when she heard the strange noise.

6. to fix prices, wages etc at a certain level. If the situation does not improve, wages will be frozen again.

noun

a period of very cold weather when temperatures are below freezing-point. How long do you think the freeze will last?

ˈfreezer noun

a cabinet for keeping food at, or bringing it down to, a temperature below freezing-point.

ˈfreezing adjective

very cold. This room's freezing.

ˈfrozen adjective

ˈfreezing-point noun

the temperature at which a liquid becomes solid. The freezing-point of water is 0 centigrade.

freeze up

to stop moving or functioning because of extreme cold. The car engine froze up.

frozen

→ مُتَجَمِّد zmrzlý frossen tiefgefroren κατεψυγμένος congelado jäätynyt gelé zamrznut congelato 凍った 언 bevroren frossen zamrożony congelado замороженный djupfryst ซึ่งเป็นน้ำแข็ง donmuş đông lạnh 冻结的

frozen

a. pp. de to freeze, congelado-a;

to become ___ → congelarse, helarse.

frozen

pp de freeze

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I call to mind a winter landscape in Amsterdam - a flat foreground of waste land, with here and there stacks of timber, like the huts of a camp of some very miserable tribe; the long stretch of the Handelskade; cold, stone-faced quays, with the snow-sprinkled ground and the hard, frozen water of the canal, in which were set ships one behind another with their frosty mooring-ropes hanging slack and their decks idle and deserted, because, as the master stevedore (a gentle, pale person, with a few golden hairs on his chin and a reddened nose) informed me, their cargoes were frozen-in up-country on barges and schuyts.

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Far to the south the sun climbed steadily to meridian, but between it and the frozen Yukon intervened the bulge of the earth.

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Few geologists now doubt that those erratic boulders which lie near lofty mountains have been pushed forward by the glaciers themselves, and that those distant from mountains, and embedded in subaqueous deposits, have been conveyed thither either on icebergs or frozen in coast-ice.

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The half-famished horses were too weak to overtake them on the frozen ground, but succeeded in driving them on the ice, where they slipped and fell, and were easily dispatched.

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Into the north they fought their way, although old-timers, coming out, shook their heads and prophesied they would be frozen in on the lakes.

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Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway.

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They unwrapped him, and a man began vigorously rubbing his ears; and as they were frozen stiff, it took only two or three rubs to break them short off.

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During the winter, when the trains are blocked up by the snow, these sledges make extremely rapid journeys across the frozen plains from one station to another.

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"Yes, it's all very well, but when a man's feet are frozen how can he walk?"

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Kotuko went on with his carving, and Kadlu threw a rolled bundle of leather dog-harnesses into a tiny little room that opened from one side of the house, slipped off his heavy deerskin hunting-suit, put it into a whalebone-net that hung above another lamp, and dropped down on the sleeping-bench to whittle at a piece of frozen seal-meat till Amoraq, his wife, should bring the regular dinner of boiled meat and blood-soup.

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But there remain a few undaunted sun-hunters who, in spite of frozen stays and ice-jammed connecting-rods, still haunt the blue empyrean.

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Perhaps the barn had burned; perhaps the cattle had frozen to death; perhaps a neighbour was lost in the storm.