frozen

For the verb: "to freeze"

Simple Past:	froze
Past Participle:	frozen

Multiple Entries:
  frozen    freeze  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
frozen/ˈfrəʊzn/

past participle of freeze.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
freeze/friːz/

▶verb (past froze; past part. frozen)

• 1 (with reference to a liquid) turn or be turned into ice or another solid as a result of extreme cold.

  ■ become or cause to become blocked or rigid with ice.

• 2 be or cause to be very cold.

  ■ store at a very low temperature as a means of preservation.

• 3 become suddenly motionless or paralysed with fear or shock.

  ■ (of a computer screen) suddenly become locked.

• 4 keep or stop at a fixed level or in a fixed state.

  ■ prevent (assets) from being used for a period of time.

  ■ stop (a moving image) at a particular frame when filming or viewing.

• 5 (freeze someone out) informal behave in a hostile or obstructive way so as to exclude someone.

▶noun

• 1 an act of freezing something at a fixed level or in a fixed state: a pay freeze.

• 2 a period of very cold weather: the big freeze.

– derivatives
freezable adjective.

– origin OE frēosan, of Gmc origin.