fresen

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

fresen

1. third-person plural present indicative of fresar (“to mill (with a milling cutter)”)

fresen

1. third-person plural present indicative of fresar (“to spawn”)

From Middle Low German vrêsen, from Old Saxon friosan.

Compare Dutch vriezen, West Frisian frieze, German frieren, English freeze, Danish fryse. Doublet of freren.

fresen (third-person singular simple present früst, past tense froor, past participle froren, auxiliary verb hebben or wesen)

1. to freeze

• freese, frese, freosen

From Old English frēosan. Compare frost.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfreːzən/

fresen (third-person singular simple present freseth, present participle fresynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative fres, past participle frosen)

1. To freeze; to become frozen (of water)
   1. To come into existence due to freezing (of ice)
   2. To become stuck to something due to freezing.
2. To be at freezing point (of the temperature):
   1. To be afflicted or injured by low temperatures (up to and including death)
   2. (rare) To have a feeling of coldness; to pick up a chill.
3. To become stopped; to cease or terminate.
4. (figurative) To prevent from feeling sympathy or compassion.
5. (rare) To coagulate like ice.

• English: freeze
  • → Maltese: ffriża
• Scots: frese

• “frẹ̄sen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 22 October 2018.

fresen

1. inflection of fresar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative