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say it: freez
freeze is a verb and noun meaning "stop moving or become immobilized". It is pronounced /ˈfɹiz/ — freez. It carries 14 recorded senses.
stop moving or become immobilized
“When he saw the police car he froze”
be very cold, below the freezing point
“It is freezing in Kalamazoo”
change from a liquid to a solid when cold
“Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit”
physics
prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)
“Blocked funds”
“Freeze the assets of this hostile government”
the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid
weather cold enough to cause freezing
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for freeze come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.