freeze over

freeze over {v.}

To become covered with ice.

The children wanted the lake to freeze over so they could ice-skate.

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[freeze out] {v.}, {informal} To force out or keep from a share or part in something by unfriendly or dishonest treatment. * /The other boys froze John out of the […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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