The difference between Freezing and Ice-cold
When used as adjectives, freezing means suffering or causing frost, whereas ice-cold means as cold as ice.
Freezing is also noun with the meaning: the change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.
check bellow for the other definitions of Freezing and Ice-cold
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Freezing as an adjective (literally):
Suffering or causing frost
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Freezing as an adjective (by extension, chiefly, hyperbole):
Very cold
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Freezing as a noun (uncountable, physics, chemistry):
The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.
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Freezing as a noun (countable, medicine):
The action of numbing with anesthetics.
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Freezing as a verb:
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Ice-cold as an adjective:
As cold as ice; very cold.
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Ice-cold as an adjective:
Without emotion; distant.
Examples:
"The way she stared him down and walked away...everyone in the room could tell she was [[ice-cold]]."