freezing

  1. Adjective.  (literally) Suffering or causing frost.
  2. Adjective.  (by extension, chiefly) Very cold.
  3. Noun.  (uncountable, physics) The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.
  4. Noun.  (countable, medicine) The action of numbing with anesthetics.
  5. Verb.  (present participle of, freeze) .

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