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View synonyms for freeze out

freeze out

verb

  1. informal.
    tr, adverb to force out or exclude, as by unfriendly behaviour, boycotting, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

Shut out or exclude by unfriendly treatment; force to retire or withdraw from membership, a job, or the like. For example, They tried to freeze me out of the conversation , or After Bill was frozen out of the case, they hired a new lawyer . [Mid-1800s]
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Example Sentences

"That's enough," said Warble, inattentively, and she danced down stairs to freeze out her caller.

Harry, who she had loved, and whom she thought loved her, had given her the cold freeze-out.

The minute a man tries to break the ice with this little lady, it's a freeze-out.

Sometimes there were poker games, usually freeze-out, which the men played with plug tobacco cut up into small cubes.

I foresee that nobody will be willing to practice the 'freeze-out' on an innocent man, passing fair, if he is a substitute.

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