Wiktionary
Of something whose temperature has been lowered rapidly to below the freezing point. v
(past participle of quick-freeze English)
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]
adj. used of foods; preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value; "frozen foods" [syn: flash-frozen, frozen]
See quick-freeze
Usage examples of "quick-frozen".
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.
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.