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comparative more freezing, superlative most freezing
(literally) Suffering or causing frost examples
(by extension, chiefly hyperbolic) Very cold examples
(with above or below) Zero °C, the freezing point of water. quotations examples
Despite this, the average temperature at the surface [of Mars] is 50–60K below freezing, making it hard to imagine that any plants or animals could survive.
1998, Bruce Jakosky, The Search for Life on Other Planets
countable and uncountable, plural freezings
(uncountable) The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature. quotations examples
Hence, there is a succession of thawings and freezings. The former expand, and endeavour to restore the surface of the ground to its natural condition, while the latter contract and harden it.
1829, James Macauley, The natural, statistical, and civil history of the state of New York
[…] and the sloping collection of fractured rocks—known as talus—that tumbled down from the quartzite bluffs during the repeated freezings and unfreezings of the last Ice Age.
2015, Kevin Revolinski, 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Madison (page 116)
(countable, medicine) The action of numbing with anesthetics. examples
present participle and gerund of freeze examples