freeze
verb/friːz/
Frequency rank: #3,642 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
To become hard and solid because of cold; to stop moving suddenly.
Example sentence
During winter, the pond can sometimes freeze over completely.
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