frozen

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   incapable of being changed or moved or undone

   e.g. frozen prices

2. 2
   adj

   not convertible to cash

   frozen assets

3. 3
   adj

   (used of foods) preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value

   frozen foods

4. 4
   adj

   Having undergone the process of freezing; in ice form.

   The mammoth has been frozen for ten thousand years.

5. 5
   adj

   Immobilized.

   I just stood frozen in terror as the robber pointed at me with his gun.

6. 6
   adj

   Retaining an older, obsolete syntax of an earlier version of a language, which now operates only on a specific word or phrase.

   "Dice" is a frozen plural.

7. 7
   verb

   past participle of freeze

   The mammoth was frozen shortly after death.

8. 8
   adj

   turned into ice

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.