freezing

[free-zing]

adjective

1. (of temperatures) approaching, at, or below the freezing point.

2. extremely or uncomfortably cold; chilled.

   We were both freezing and welcomed the hot cocoa.

3. beginning to freeze or partially frozen; frozen; in the process of being or becoming frozen. frozen.

freezing

/ ˈfriːzɪŋ /

adjective

1. informal,  extremely cold

Other Word Forms

• freezingly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of freezing¹

First recorded in 1605–15; freeze + -ing ²

Example Sentences

Reagan Conrad, who hosts “The Comments Section” podcast for the Daily Wire, discouraged egg freezing.

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More will flick on the radio or TV on a freezing winter's night in the UK longing to be warmed by news from the other side of the planet.

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Batch cooking and freezing meal portions can also save money.

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Mountains of ice surround them like bleachers in an arena—if the bleachers were below freezing and stretched taller than skyscrapers.

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That Plinkst and the Swanburne Academy could coexist on the same planet seemed as unlikely as pigs taking flight, hens growing teeth, very hot places freezing over, and other such expressions of the impossible.

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Related Words

• biting 
• chilly 
• frigid 
• frosty 
• glacial 
• icy 
• numbing 
• polar 
• wintry