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frysa

“frysa” is a Swedish word. Its 5 meanings in English:

verb

  1. feel cold, to the point of discomfort
  2. freeze; to become hard due to low temperature
  3. freeze; to become motionless (in some expressions only)
  4. freeze; to lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes.
  5. freeze; to stop, to cause to become motionless, to halt (a motion) immediately

Etymology

From Old Swedish frȳsa, from Old Norse frjósa, from Proto-Germanic *freusaną, from Proto-Indo-European *prews-.

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