DEEP FREEZE Definition & Meaning

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deep freeze

noun

a state or period of halted or suspended activity or progress:
High interest rates created a deep freeze in housing construction.
suspended animation.

deep-freeze

[ deep-freez ]

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verb (used with object)

deep-freezed or deep-froze, deep-freezed or deep-frozen, deep-freezing.

to quick-freeze (food).
to store in a frozen frozen state.

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Origin of deep freeze¹

An Americanism dating back to 1940–45

Origin of deep freeze²

An Americanism dating back to 1945–50; deep + freeze

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Idioms and Phrases

put in / into the deep freeze, Informal. to stop or suspend the activity or progress of:
A series of quarrels put their romance into the deep freeze.

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Example Sentences

The Red Scare used mass fear to put a long, deep freeze on freedom of thought and creativity in America; this may be the closest parallel to what we are seeing today.

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Then in January 2018, the eastern United States plunged into another deep freeze while the West remained stubbornly warm and dry.

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Just hit the deep freeze mode button and viola, the freezer will make sure everything gets to temperature quickly.

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Erdogan's Turkey did more than any other power to preserve the autonomy of Idlib province, where HTS was transforming itself into a fighting force when Syria seemed to be in the deep freeze.

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And in Georgia, a racketeering case stemming from the Jan. 6 plot is in a sort of deep freeze as the state courts try to sort out whether Fulton County Dist.

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