Meanings (ES + gloss)
frío pelú • helada • pacheco
A period of intensely cold weather.
In order to work properly, the cotton stripper required that the plant be brown and brittle, as happened after a freeze, so that the cotton bolls could snap off easily.
cuelgue
The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.
Phrases
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
congelarse • frisarse • helarse
Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha, Book XX: The Famine, Ever thicker, thicker, thicker / Froze the ice on lake and river,
The lake froze solid.
congelar • frisar • helar
To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.
1888, Elias Lönnrot, John Martin Crawford (translator, from German), The Kalevala, Rune XXX: The Frost-fiend, Freeze the wizard in his vessel, / Freeze to ice the wicked Ahti, ...
Don't freeze meat twice.
escarchar • helar
To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.
It didn't freeze this winter, but last winter was very harsh.
arrecirse
To be affected by extreme cold.
Don't go outside wearing just a t-shirt; you'll freeze!
It's freezing in here!
Phrases
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