enfreeze

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/ɪnˈfɹiːz/

verb

To freeze; to congeal.

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Meanings

verbenfreeze (third-person singular simple present enfreezes, present participle enfreezing, simple past enfroze, past participle enfrozen)

present singular third person enfreezes · participle present enfreezing · past enfroze · participle past enfrozen

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo freeze; to congeal.

    Eternal night Enfreezes, crushes souls, made strong to gaze On God's most holy light!

    1870, Emily Bayne, Sighs of Hope, page 40
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    Yet to augment the anguish of my smart, Thou hast enfrozen her disdainful brest , That no one drop of pity there doth rest.

    1596, Edmund Spenser, A Hymne in Honour of Love

    It is to bee seene in some notorious malefactors, whose hearts, a long continnance in prophane villanies, a furious pursuit of bloud and outrages, and the just curse of God upon them, has so enfrozen and emmarbled, that they are senslesse & fearlesse of whatsoever can befall them.

    1634, Robert Bolton, The Saints Selfe-enriching Examination, page 193

Origin

From en- + freeze.

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