Freeze vs. Froze — What's the Difference?

To become clogged or jammed because of the formation of ice

Past tense of freeze.

To pass from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.

Past participle of freeze

To acquire a surface or coat of ice from cold

To be at that degree of temperature at which ice forms

To be killed or harmed by cold or frost

To be or feel uncomfortably cold

To become fixed, stuck, or attached by or as if by frost

To stop functioning properly, usually temporarily

To become motionless or immobile, as from surprise or attentiveness

To become unable to act or speak, as from fear

To become rigid and inflexible; solidify

To convert into ice.

To cause ice to form upon.

To cause to congeal or stiffen from extreme cold

To preserve (foods, for example) by subjecting to freezing temperatures.

To damage, kill, or make inoperative by cold or by the formation of ice.

To make very cold; chill.

To immobilize, as with fear or shock.

To chill with an icy or formal manner

To stop the motion or progress of

To fix (prices or wages, for example) at a given or current level.

To prohibit further manufacture or use of.

To prevent or restrict the exchange, withdrawal, liquidation, or granting of by governmental action

To anesthetize by chilling.

(Sports) To keep possession of (a ball or puck) so as to deny an opponent the opportunity to score.

The act of freezing.

The state of being frozen.

A spell of cold weather; a frost.

A restriction that forbids a quantity from rising above a given or current level

Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.

(transitive) To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.

(intransitive) To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.

To be affected by extreme cold.

(intransitive) (of machines and software) To come to a sudden halt, stop working (functioning).

(intransitive) (of people and other animals) To stop (become motionless) or be stopped due to attentiveness, fear, surprise, etc.

(transitive) To cause someone to become motionless.

(figuratively) To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.

To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.

(transitive) To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets

Of prices, spending etc., to keep at the same level, without any increase.

(Internet) To prevent from showing any visible change.

A period of intensely cold weather.

A halt of a regular operation.

(computer) The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.

(curling) A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out.

A block on pay rises or on the hiring of new employees etc.

A frieze.

The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.

To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.

To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins.

To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.

To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.

The withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid

Weather cold enough to cause freezing

An interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement;

Fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level;

Change to ice;

Stop moving or become immobilized;

Be cold;

Cause to freeze;

Stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it;

Be very cold, below the freezing point;

Change from a liquid to a solid when cold;

Prohibit the conversion or use of (assets);

Anesthetize by cold

Suddenly behave coldly and formally;