Antonyms for freeze out


Grammar : Verb
Spell : freez-out
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfrizˌaʊt


Definition of freeze out

Origin :
  • Old English freosan "turn to ice" (class II strong verb; past tense freas, past participle froren), from Proto-Germanic *freusanan (cf. Old Norse frjosa, Old High German friosan, German frieren "to freeze," Gothic frius "frost"), from Proto-Germanic *freus-, equivalent to PIE root *preus- "to freeze," also "to burn" (cf. Sanskrit prusva, Latin pruina "hoarfrost," Welsh rhew "frost," Sanskrit prustah "burnt," Albanian prus "burning coals," Latin pruna "a live coal").
  • Transitive sense first recorded 14c., figurative sense c.1400. Meaning "become rigid or motionless" attested by 1720. Sense of "fix at a certain level, make non-transactable" is 1922. Freeze frame is from 1960, originally "a briefly Frozen Shot after the Jingle to allow ample time for Change over at the end of a T.V. 'Commercial.' " ["ABC of Film & TV," 1960].
  • As in bar : verb prohibit
  • As in depose : verb oust from position
  • As in discharge : verb dismiss from responsibility
Example sentences :
  • The object is to freeze out competition and keep up the prices.
  • Extract from : « Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 » by Various
  • I am charmed to learn that you have had a freeze out of my ghost story.
  • Extract from : « The Letters of Charles Dickens » by Charles Dickens
  • The boys was having a little game of 'freeze out' last night.
  • Extract from : « Saddle and Mocassin » by Francis Francis Jr.
  • Or it might have expired and left them to freeze out there in the washhouse.
  • Extract from : « The Girls of Hillcrest Farm » by Amy Bell Marlowe
  • I should give yourself five more minutes; you'll freeze out there.
  • Extract from : « Married Life » by May Edginton
  • I am well acquainted with one man of Yankee origin, who formerly made it a practice to freeze out his colds, as he called it.
  • Extract from : « Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders » by William A. Alcott
  • But as the clock ticked off the half-hour I seemed to freeze out of the eruptive and into the glacial stage.
  • Extract from : « The Portal of Dreams » by Charles Neville Buck
  • Except that his hands were like to freeze out of use Christian cared marvellously little for outer miseries.
  • Extract from : « The Unknown Sea » by Clemence Housman
  • Did he not know, or at least more than suspect, that the company was trying to "freeze out" the distant holders?
  • Extract from : « To The Front » by Charles King
  • But if he thought to freeze out his dainty visitor by his indifference he was mistaken.
  • Extract from : « They Looked and Loved » by Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller

Synonyms for freeze out

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