Deepfreeze

American  

[deep-freez, -freez] / ˈdipˌfriz, -ˈfriz /

Trademark.

1. a brand of deep freezer.

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deepfreeze British  

/ ˌdiːpˈfriːz /

noun

1. a type of refrigerator in which food, etc, is stored for long periods at temperatures below freezing

2. storage in or as if in a deepfreeze

3. informal a state of suspended activity

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verb

1. (tr) to freeze or keep in or as if in a deepfreeze

Example Sentences

This is Operation Deepfreeze '61�the fanciest assault ever mounted against-the forbidding, frozen land on the earth's underside.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the same time, a host of kitchen aids, from dishwashers, pressure cookers, blenders and Deepfreeze units to the latest nonstick Teflon pans, were taking the drudgery out of cooking.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last year, he spent $3,000 remodeling his kitchen�an electric stove, automatic dishwashing machine, a big Deepfreeze, a whole set of fancy kitchen cabinets.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was gravely received on the quarterdeck by Rear Admiral George J. Dufek, got an illustrated lecture on the Glacier's part in Operation Deepfreeze, and a copy of R. B. Robertson's 1954 bestselling memoir.

From Time Magazine Archive

But an accident of geology turned the continent of Australia into an evolutionary Deepfreeze where various inefficient cousins of the modern mammals have survived, protected from competition.

From Time Magazine Archive