Frozen means turned to ice, or kept as cold as ice. A frozen lake, frozen peas, the pipes are frozen.
It is the past participle of freeze and works as an ordinary adjective. Frozen food is food preserved by freezing, and the frozen section is where a supermarket keeps it. Of a person, frozen means extremely cold or unable to move: frozen with fear, frozen to the spot. Of money or plans, frozen means held still and not allowed to change: a pay freeze, frozen assets. Note that a computer screen freezes, which is the same stillness.
1adjectivefrozenTurned to ice, or kept as cold as ice.
“The lake stayed frozen until the end of March.”
2adjectiveunableUnable to move.
“She stood frozen in the doorway.”
3adjectiveheldHeld still and not allowed to change.
“Their accounts have been frozen since April.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
frozen is a state of being iced or held still.
Frozen replaced an older form, froren. Middle English carried both, and the version with the z spread out of the verb freosen while froren quietly died away.
Middle English
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English, today
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From Middle English frozen, frosen, ifrozen, variant of froren, ifroren "frozen"; > see frorn, past participle of Middle English fresen, freosen (“to freeze”). by surface analysis, freeze + -n.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA