freezing cold
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see freezing, cold: cold in a way that involves freezing of water or other liquids.
Don't even touch that pump handle — it's freezing cold and your skin might freeze against it.
freezing
UK /ˈfɹiːz.ɪŋ/ US /ˈfɹiːz.ɪŋ/
adj 3noun 2
Definitions
adj
1
Suffering or causing frost.
2
Very cold.
3
The freezing point of water, zero degrees celsius.
Despite this, the average temperature at the surface [of Mars] is 50–60K below freezing, making it hard to imagine that any plants or animals could survive.
noun
1
The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.
Hence, there is a succession of thawings and freezings. The former expand, and endeavour to restore the surface of the ground to its natural condition, while the latter contract and harden it.
[…] and the sloping collection of fractured rocks—known as talus—that tumbled down from the quartzite bluffs during the repeated freezings and unfreezings of the last Ice Age.
2
The action of numbing with anesthetics.
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