freezing

About 6.16 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Suffering or causing frost.
2. adjective Very cold.
3. adjective The freezing point of water, zero degrees celsius.
4. adjective Aloof, unfriendly.
5. noun The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.

   The temp in the mountains may/can fall below freezing at this time of year.

6. noun The action of numbing with anesthetics.
7. verb present participle and gerund of freeze

Similar words

gelid frigid icy cold glacial polar arctic ice-cold chilling chilly

Often followed by

point and of in the cold temperatures to weather

Word family

freezing cold freezings