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glacer

to freeze

verb glah-SEH Rare
Food & Drink Cooking

Also means

to ice (a cake), to chill with fear

Usage Note

Glacer covers several related senses: physically freezing a liquid, icing a pastry (glacer un gâteau), and the vivid idiom glacer de peur ('to freeze with fear'). The past participle glacé functions as an adjective meaning 'icy, glazed, or glacéed' — as in fruits glacés (candied fruits) or thé glacé (iced tea).

Examples

"Ce vent glacial me glace les mains."

Natural Translation

This icy wind is freezing my hands.

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