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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

얼다

Pronunciation / Transliteration: eolda

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Freeze/friːz/
verbnounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #950 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"온도가 0도 이하로 떨어지면 물이 얼 것이다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To become solid due to low temperature.

    "Water will freeze if the temperature drops below 0 degrees Celsius."
As noun
  1. 1

    A state of being frozen or a period of freezing temperatures.

    "The freeze last winter caused many pipes to burst."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old English 'frēosan', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch 'vriezen' and German 'frieren', from an Indo-European root meaning 'to burn' or 'to glow' (later shifting in meaning due to the burning sensation of intense cold).

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