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• 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.

• FREEZE OFF (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Reject with contempt

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

freeze off; spurn; disdain; pooh-pooh; scorn; turn down; reject

Context example:

She spurned his advances

Hypernyms (to "freeze off" is one way to...):

decline; refuse (show unwillingness towards)

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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(English proverb)
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(Arabic proverb)
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(Corsican proverb)

Useful links:
Definition of snub
Pronunciation of refuse
Definition of repel
Pronunciation of rebuff
Definition of decline

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