FREEZINGLY

Etymology

Adverb

freezingly (comparative more freezingly, superlative most freezingly)

In a way that is freezing; with intense cold.

(figurative) With intense emotional coldness; dispassionately.

Source: Wiktionary

FREEZING

Freez"ing, a.

Definition: Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner.

– Frrez"ing*ly, adv. Freezing machine. See Ice machine, under Ice.

– Freezing mixture, a mixture (of salt and snow or of chemical salts) for producing intense cold.

– Freezing point, that degree of a thermometer at which a fluid begins to freeze; -- applied particularly to water, whose freezing point is at 32º Fahr., and at 0º Centigrade.

FREEZE

Freeze, n. (Arch.)

Definition: A frieze. [Obs.]

Freeze, v. i. [imp. Froze; p. p. Frozen; p. pr. & vb. n. Freezing.] Etym: [OE. fresen, freosen, AS. freósan; akin to D. vriezen, OHG. iosan, G. frieren, Icel. frjsa, Sw. frysa, Dan. fryse, Goth. frius cold, frost, and prob. to L. prurire to itch, E. prurient, cf. L. prna a burning coal, pruina hoarfrost, Skr. prushva ice, prush to spirt. Frost.]

1. To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.

Note: Water freezes at 32º above zero by Fahrenheit's thermometer; mercury freezes at 40º below zero.

2. To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins. To freeze up (Fig.), to become formal and cold in demeanor. [Colloq.]

Freeze, v. t.

1. To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.

2. To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill. A faint, cold fear runs through my veins, That almost freezes up the heat of life. Shak.

Freeze, n.

Definition: The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed. [Colloq.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition