The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word FREEZE
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More clues leading to the result FREEZE
- Stop to deliver outside of zone
- Don’t move and chill to a certain degree
- Preserve and deliver letter at the end, then track
- Suspend band on radio
- Stop period of cold weather
- Abruptly stop talk of ransoms
- Stop releases by dictator
- About to wear hat, beginning to expect period of cold weather
- Put a stop to decorated band having audition
- Stop being liberated with enthusiasm half lost
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What does FREEZE mean?
FREEZE verb- Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
- To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.
- To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.
- To be affected by extreme cold.
- (of machines and software) To come to a sudden halt, stop working (functioning).
- (of people and other animals) To stop (become motionless) or be stopped due to attentiveness, fear, surprise, etc.
- To cause someone to become motionless.
- To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.
- To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
- To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets
- Of prices, spending etc., to keep at the same level, without any increase.
- A period of intensely cold weather.
- A halt of a regular operation.
- The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.
- A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out.
- A block on pay rises or on the hiring of new employees etc.
- A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
- That part of the entablature of an order which is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, either uniform or broken by triglyphs, and often enriched with figures and other ornaments of sculpture.
- Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture.
- A banner with a series of pictures.