congelar

Probably borrowed from Latin congelāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kuɲ.ʒəˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [koɲ.ʒəˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [koɲ.d͡ʒeˈlaɾ]

congelar (first-person singular present congelo, first-person singular preterite congelí, past participle congelat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

1. (transitive) to freeze

• anticongelant
• congelador
• congelament
• descongelar

• congelació
• gelar

Probably borrowed from Latin congelare, present active infinitive of congelo.

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congelar

1. (transitive) to freeze

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• conglaçar

• gelar

Learned borrowing from Latin congēlāre.

• Hyphenation: con‧ge‧lar

congelar (first-person singular present congelo, first-person singular preterite congelei, past participle congelado)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to freeze

   Antonym: descongelar

For quotations using this term, see Citations:congelar.

• descongelar

• “congelar”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “congelar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “congelar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “congelar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “congelar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Borrowed from Latin congelāre. Cognate with English congeal.

• IPA^(key): /konxeˈlaɾ/ [kõŋ.xeˈlaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: con‧ge‧lar

congelar (first-person singular present congelo, first-person singular preterite congelé, past participle congelado)

1. (transitive) to freeze (to lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes)

   Synonym: helar

2. (transitive) to freeze, to suspend (an activity, a program)
   • 2019 April 22, León Krauze, “Dar la espalda al paisano”, in El Universal‎^[1]:

     Hace un par de semanas, el Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM) removió de sus cargos a los representantes en Estados Unidos y congeló el programa de asistencia, al que piensa reestructurar próximamente.

     A couple of weeks ago, the National Migration Institute (NMI) removed representatives in the United States from their posts and froze the aid program, which it plans to restructure shortly.

• “congelar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28