Wiktionary
n. A chamber or device in which the temperature may be rapidly lowered to below to freezing point. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To rapidly reduce the temperature of something to below the freezing point, thereby preserving some aspect of it (such as position or flavor) that would otherwise be lost during the freezing process. 2 (context transitive English) preserve in an unaltered state, reminiscent of quick-freezing.
WordNet
v. freeze rapidly so as to preserve the natural juices and flavors; "quick-freeze the shrimp" [syn: flash-freeze]
[also: quick-frozen, quick-froze]
Usage examples of "quick-freeze".
Quick-frozen mentally at the moment of inert blankness his meditation had granted him-the psychic drunkard's coma-he was cushioned on repellent charges as he plummeted down, and instantly stripped of surplus electrostatic charge.
Later, famously, he had risked his life taking The Dart on a flythrough the clouds of Jupiter, en route ramming a gas-whale and carrying it back into space with him spitted on The Dart, indeed draped around The Dart, its collapsed quick-frozen carcass almost, enfolding his ship, a gift to science although a cause of some controversy.
Advocates of cryonics, that Californian fantasy of quick-freezing the dead until future advances in medical technology can bring them back to life, recognize this.
They inspected the bodies on the seabed, then lifted them-shackles and all-to the surface, quick-froze them, and whipped them back to shore on the institute’s hovercraft for a real inspection.
It was an icy sound that stabbed right through Travis and quick-froze his bone marrow.
Hey, look, Chalidang quick-froze a bunch of solders, and they're going to invade.
New quick-freeze techniques allowed boats to work halfway around the world and process their fish as they went, and this made the three-mile limit around most countries completely ineffectual.
The gaunt man was almost out of the light at the halfway point, about to step into the second stretch of darkness, when again he stopped and stood as if quick-frozen.
Siberia also shifted north in an incredibly short time span, as evidenced by fruit trees with leaves and woolly mammoths that were found quick-frozen, with vegetation undigested in their stomachs that no longer grew within a thousand miles of that location.