Etymology
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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.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
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frozen (comparative more frozen, superlative most frozen)
- Having undergone the process of freezing; in ice form.
The mammoth has been frozen for ten thousand years.
2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters … But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around $500 a kilo.
- Immobilized.
I just stood frozen as the robber pointed at me with his gun.
- (of a bank account or assets) In a state such that transactions are not allowed.
- (grammar) 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.
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Translations
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having undergone freezing
- Afrikaans: bevrore (af)
- Arabic: مُجَمَّد (mujammad), مُصَقَّع (muṣaqqaʕ)
- Asturian: xeláu
- Bashkir: туң (tuñ), туңған (tuñğan), туңдырылған (tuñdırılğan)
- Bengali: নিথর (bn) (nithor)
- Bulgarian: замразен (bg) (zamrazen), замръзнал (bg) (zamrǎznal), леден (bg) (leden)
- Catalan: gelat (ca)
- Chickasaw: akmi
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 凍結的／冻结的 (dòngjié de), 冷凍的／冷冻的 (lěngdòng de), 結冰的／结冰的 (jiébīng de)
- Czech: zmrzlý (cs), zamrzlý
- Dalmatian: glazait
- Danish: frossen
- Dutch: bevroren (nl)
- Finnish: (something/-one else has done it) jäädytetty (fi), pakastettu (fi); (the thing/person has frozen on its own) jäätynyt (fi), pakastunut (fi)
- French: congelé (fr), gelé (fr)
- Friulian: inglačât, glačât
- Galician: xeado (gl), conxelado (gl)
- Georgian: გაყინული (gaq̇inuli)
- German: gefroren (de)
- Greek: κατεψυγμένος (el) (katepsygménos)
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hebrew: קפוא (kafú')
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: fagyott (hu)
- Icelandic: freðinn (is), frosinn (is)
- Ido: please add this translation if you can
- Irish: reoite
- Italian: ghiacciato (it), gelato (it), congelato (it) m
- Japanese: 凍結 (ja) (tōketsu)
- Javanese: please add this translation if you can
- Kazakh: тоңазыған (toñazyğan)
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: gelātus
- Macedonian: замрзнат (zamrznat), смрзнат (smrznat)
- Malay: please add this translation if you can
- Malayalam: തണുത്തുറഞ്ഞ (taṇuttuṟañña)
- Maori: mae (with fear)
- Mongolian: хөлдүү (mn) (xöldüü)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: frossen, frosset (no), tilfrosset
- Occitan: gelat
- Old English: ġefroren (ang)
- Old Norse: frørinn
- Persian: یخزده (yax-zade), (rare) فسرده (fa) (fesorde)
- Polish: zamrożony m
- Portuguese: congelado (pt), gelado (pt)
- Romanian: înghețat (ro)
- Russian: (deliberately) заморо́женный (ru) (zamoróžennyj), моро́женый (ru) (moróženyj), (by its/his/her own) замёрзший (ru) (zamjórzšij)
- Scanian: frøsen, frøsed
- Scottish Gaelic: reòta
- Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
- Shuswap: alt
- Sicilian: jilatu m, gnilatu m
- Slovak: zamrznutý, zmrazený
- Spanish: congelado (es)
- Swedish: fryst (sv), frusen (sv)
- Tagalog: elado
- Telugu: గడ్డకట్టిన (gaḍḍakaṭṭina)
- Turkish: donuk (tr), donmuş (tr)
- Ukrainian: заморо́жений (zamoróženyj), моро́жений (moróženyj) (food)
- Urdu: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: đông (vi)
- Zulu: please add this translation if you can
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frozen
- past participle of freeze
- The mammoth was frozen shortly after death.
