Usually means: Become unable to think, react.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word freeze up:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. freeze-up: Merriam-Webster
  2. freeze-up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. freeze-up, freeze-up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. freeze-up: Wordnik
  5. freeze up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. freeze-up, freeze up: Wiktionary
  7. freeze-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. freeze-up, freeze up: Dictionary.com
  9. freeze-up, freeze up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. freeze up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. freeze-up: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. freeze up: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. freeze up: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. FREEZE-UP: Power Engineering

Definitions from Wiktionary (freeze up)

verb:  To be adversely affected by ice, and not function.
verb:  (ambitransitive) (of machines and software) To come or bring to a sudden halt, stop working (functioning).
verb:  (ambitransitive) (of people and other animals) To stop or be stopped due to attentiveness, fear, surprise, etc.
verb:  (intransitive) To become cold and formal in demeanour.

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