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  Deepfreeze

  a brand of deep freezer.
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  deepfreeze

  noun

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

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

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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

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

Mrs. C. T. Higgins of Portland, Ore., who four years ago had the city's first private, backyard underground shelter, granted that the family had been thinking about converting it into a walk-in Deepfreeze.

From Time Magazine Archive

The address comes as China shows signs of thawing a diplomatic deepfreeze of Australian ministers following the election of a new government last month.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2022

Indian and Pakistani relations have been in the deepfreeze ever since.

From Newsweek ● May 3, 2010

The decidedly mellowing tone was set during a Kremlin dinner for visiting Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, at which Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev suggested that the Moscow chill had not been intended as a deepfreeze.

From Time Magazine Archive

Almost all of Andropov's other important initiatives seem to have gone into the deepfreeze.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of course, it would seem strange to find Terra ruled by another species, but after all that was a contingency he had fully considered when he voluntarily undertook the deepfreeze.

From Deepfreeze by Locke, Robert Donald