freeze
Base form
freeze
/friːz/
Past simple
froze
/frəʊz/
Past participle
frozen
/ˈfrəʊzn/
MeaningB1
to become hard and cold like ice
to freeze to death
In use
- After a modal verb · Form 1The lake might freeze if it gets any colder tonight.
- Negative · Form 1Don’t freeze bread that has already been defrosted.
- Past simple · Form 2Last winter the pipes froze and we had no water for two days.
- Past simple · Form 2When the teacher called her name yesterday, Aisha froze.
- Passive · Form 3All the fish is frozen as soon as the boats come in.
- Present perfect · Form 3The canal has frozen over for the first time in years.
Watch out
Froze, then frozen with -n: the lake froze, frozen food. Freezed, frozed and frozened are wrong.
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