Collocations for "freeze"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "freeze" in context.
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freeze
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- the [water, lake, river] froze
- the [water] froze [solid, over]
- the ground has frozen hard
- freeze [water, food, leftovers]
- freeze it for later [use, consumption]
- [can, should] be frozen
- I froze up [on stage, while performing, in front of her]
- my [shoulder, knee, muscles] had frozen (up)
- freeze the [frame, image, video, picture]
- froze my [pay, funds, funding, account, assets]
- has frozen their prices
- freeze to death
- freeze off a wart
- the screen has frozen
- idiom: when hell freezes over
- vulgar: I'm freezing my [balls, nuts, ass, butt, tits] off
- Freeze! Don't move!
- is in deep freeze
- it's a deep freeze out there
- the big freeze of '78
- the first freeze of [winter, fall]
- a [wage, price, inflation, pay] freeze
- [imposed, proposed] a [pay] freeze
- put a freeze on [wages]
'freeze' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):