The difference between Freezing and Icy

When used as adjectives, freezing means suffering or causing frost, whereas icy means pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in 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.

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  1. Freezing as an adjective (literally):

    Suffering or causing frost

  2. Freezing as an adjective (by extension, chiefly, hyperbole):

    Very cold

  1. 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.

  2. Freezing as a noun (countable, medicine):

    The action of numbing with anesthetics.

  1. Freezing as a verb:

  1. Icy as an adjective:

    Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in ice; cold; frosty.

  2. Icy as an adjective:

    Covered with ice, wholly or partially.

  3. Icy as an adjective:

    Characterized by coldness of manner; frigid; cold.

  4. Icy as an adjective (US, slang):

    To be wearing an excessive amount of jewelry, especially of the high-quality and expensive kind.

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