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FREEZE OFF
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Dictionary entry overview: What does freeze off mean?
• FREEZE OFF (verb)
The verb FREEZE OFF has 1 sense:
1. reject with contempt
Familiarity information: FREEZE OFF used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Reject with contempt
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
disdain; freeze off; pooh-pooh; reject; scorn; spurn; turn down
Context example:
She spurned his advances
Hypernyms (to "freeze off" is one way to...):
decline; refuse (show unwillingness towards)
Verb group:
decline; pass up; refuse; reject; turn down (refuse to accept)
refuse; reject; turn away; turn down (refuse entrance or membership)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "freeze off"):
rebuff; repel; snub (reject outright and bluntly)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
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