- freeze out
- verbchange from a liquid to a solid when cold (Freq. 2)-
Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit
• Syn: ↑freeze, ↑freeze down• Topics: ↑physics, ↑natural philosophy• Hypernyms: ↑solidify• Verb Group: ↑freeze• Verb Frames:-Somebody ——s something
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transitive verb1.a. : to drive out or exclude by coldthe drop in temperature when the furnace went out froze out the club meeting
b. : to drive out or eliminate from competition or eliminate or exclude from a position of intimacy, significance, influence, or authority especially by stratagem, by coldly formal rejection, or by forcethe depression froze out most of his competitors
the majority stockholders froze out the minority and took over the business
tended to freeze out newcomers until their family and educational backgrounds had been ascertained
2. : to eliminate from a game of freeze-out* * *
freeze out (informal)1. To oblige to leave2. To exclude (freezeˈ-out noun)• • •Main Entry: ↑freeze* * *
ˌfreeze ˈout [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they freeze out he/she/it freezes out present participle freezing out past tense froze out past participle frozen out] informal phrasal verbto prevent someone from taking part in somethingHe was frozen out of official life.
Thesaurus: to stop someone doing somethingsynonym to isolate someonesynonym to kill a person or animalsynonymMain entry: freeze* * *
freeze out [phrasal verb]freeze out (someone) or freeze (someone) out : to not allow (someone) to be included in an activity or groupa politician who is being frozen out by former supporters who accuse him of betraying the party
• • •Main Entry: ↑freeze
Useful english dictionary. 2012.