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frozen

//ˈfɹəʊzən//

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

Note for frozen

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Forms

Comparative
more frozen
Superlative
most frozen

Definitions

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

  1. 1.Having undergone the process of freezing; in ice form.

    • The mammoth has been frozen for ten thousand years.

  2. 2.Immobilized.

    • I just stood frozen in terror as the robber pointed at me with his gun.

  3. 3.Of an account or assets, in a state such that transactions are not allowed.

  4. 4.Retaining an older, obsolete syntax of an earlier version of a language, which now operates only on a specific word or phrase.

    • "Dice" is a frozen plural.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

  1. 1.past participle of freeze

    • The mammoth was frozen shortly after death.

Frequency

Overall

Rare· #4403

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Rare
General reading & writing
Rare
Academic
Rare
Literature
Rare

Etymology

From Middle English frozen, frosen, ifrozen, variant of froren, ifroren ("frozen"; > see frorn), past participle of Middle English fresen, freosen (“to freeze”).

By surface analysis, freeze + -n.

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