Pronunciation SAMPA: /'/ IPA: /'fri:z/ Intransitive verb to freeze (froze, frozen) to be very cold (a temperature below 0 degrees celsius) to become hard due to low temperature (for liquids) to become motionless. (The squirrel froze when it saw the hawk overhead.) Translations Breton: reviñ, ober skorn (1), skornañ, sonnañ (2), chom a-sav krenn (3) Catalan: glaçar, gelar (1,2) Dutch: vriezen (1), bevriezen (2), roerloos worden (3) Finnish: jäätyä (1,2), jähmettyä (3) French: geler (1), glacer (2), se figer (3) German: frieren (1), gefrieren (2) Indonesian: membeku, membekukan Interlingua: gelar (1), congelar (2) Japanese: 凍る (こおる, kooru), 凍らせる (こおらせる, kooraseru) Polish: marznąć (1), zamarzać (2) Portuguese: gelar (1), congelar (2) Romanian: îngheţa (1,2), congela (2) Transitive verb to freeze (froze, frozen) to lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes. Translations Breton: skornañ Catalan: congelar Dutch: bevriezen French: congeler Noun a period of intensely cold weather. Translations Catalan: glaçada f, gelada f
to freeze (froze, frozen)