Definition of "freezing" in English

adjective

1. (literally) Suffering or causing frost.

2. (by extension, chiefly hyperbolic) Very cold.

3. (with above or below) The freezing point of water, zero degrees celsius.

noun

1. (countable and uncountable) The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.

   • […] and the sloping collection of fractured rocks—known as talus—that tumbled down from the quartzite bluffs during the repeated freezings and unfreezings of the last Ice Age.

2. (countable, medicine) The action of numbing with anesthetics.

verb

1. present participle and gerund of freeze