Synonyms of the word

freezing

• adj. (literally) Suffering or causing frost.
• adj. (by extension, chiefly hyperbolic) Very cold.
• n. (uncountable, physics, chemistry) The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to…
• n. (countable, medicine) The action of numbing with anesthetics.
• v. present participle of freeze.

chilling

• adj. Becoming cold.
• adj. Causing cold.
• adj. Causing mild fear.
• v. present participle of chill.
• n. The act by which something is chilled.

cooling

• v. present participle of cool.
• n. A decrease in temperature.
• n. Refrigeration.
• adj. That cools.

freeze

• v. (intransitive) Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
• v. (transitive) To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.
• v. (intransitive) To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To be affected by extreme cold.
• v. (intransitive) (of machines and software) To come to a sudden halt, stop working (functioning).
• v. (intransitive) (of people and other animals) To stop (become motionless) or be stopped due to attentiveness,…
• v. (figuratively) To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.
• v. To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
• v. (transitive) To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets.
• n. A period of intensely cold weather.
• n. A halt of a regular operation.
• n. (computing) The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to…
• n. (curling) A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary…
• n. (specifically, in finance) A block on pay rises.
• n. Obsolete form of frieze.