## Meanings
1. Turned hard because of extreme cold; in ice form.
2. (of food) preserved by being kept very cold.
3. Unable to move, often because of fear.
4. Past participle of freeze.
5. Kept at a fixed level and not allowed to change.

## Examples
- The lake was completely frozen in January.
- We keep a bag of frozen peas in the freezer.
- I stood frozen in terror as the robber pointed his gun.
- The water had frozen solid overnight.
- The company has frozen prices until next year.

## Derived Forms
- cryofrozen
- deep-frozen
- enfrozen
- frogurt
- frozenly
- frozenness
- nonfrozen
- permafrozen
- quick-frozen
- semifrozen
- unfrozen

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: frozen
- Root: fresen

## Etymology
From Middle English frozen, frosen, ifrozen, variant of froren, ifroren ("frozen"; > see frorn), past participle of Middle English fresen, freosen (“to freeze”). By surface analysis, freeze + -n.

## AI Etymology
Frozen comes from Middle English frozen, frosen, ifrozen, variant of froren, ifroren ("frozen"; > see frorn), past participle of Middle English fresen, freosen (“to freeze”). By surface analysis, freeze + -n. In current use, the main senses are “Turned hard because of extreme cold; in ice form” and “(of food) preserved by being kept very cold”.

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