Meaning = (of a liquid) to be turned into ice or another solid as a result of extreme cold.

Example = “The water will freeze if the temperature drops below zero.”

Example = They walked across the frozen lake.

Example = We waited in the freezing rain.

defrost (de- = undo)

I need to defrost the chicken before cooking it.

Meaning = An act of holding or being held at a fixed level or in a fixed state.

Example ="workers faced a pay freeze"

Form → Adjectives

Freeze hard. The ground had frozen hard.

Freeze solid The river used to freeze solid every winter.

Freeze over. When the lake freezes over (= turns into ice on the surface), we can go skating on it.

Freeze up Our pipes froze up (= the water in them turned to ice) several times last winter.

Freeze to death. Without a sleeping bag, you would freeze to death (= become so cold that you die) out there on the mountainside.

The road began to refreeze overnight.

Meaning = The earth.

"collecting goodies from all over the globe"

a spherical or rounded object.

"orange trees clipped into giant globes"