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froze

American  
[frohz] / froʊz /

verb

  1. simple past tense of freeze.

  2. Nonstandard. a past participle of freeze.


froze British  
/ frəʊz /

verb

  1. the past tense of freeze

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Apple Daily closed in 2021 under pressure from Hong Kong authorities, who froze company assets, seized journalists’ computers and charged top executives under the national-security law.

From The Wall Street Journal

I squirmed, then froze in my chair, trying to conceal my cringe.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mexico’s financial-intelligence unit froze bank accounts tied to shell companies that funded informant networks and used to pay their lawyers, according to another person familiar with the operation.

From The Wall Street Journal

JLR froze production for more than one month owing to the attack, gradually resuming output in October.

From Barron's

Around Labor Day, Citi froze all of the accounts that had come in through the link, preventing people from using the cards or accessing any points.

From The Wall Street Journal