"freeze out" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-freeze out.ogg [Australia] Forms: freezes out [present, singular, third-person], freezing out [participle, present], froze out [past], frozen out [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|freeze<,,froze,frozen> out}} freeze out (third-person singular simple present freezes out, present participle freezing out, simple past froze out, past participle frozen out)
  1. (idiomatic) To forcibly remove or exclude. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: frostiness, frosty, ice out

Inflected forms

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        },
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        "(idiomatic) To forcibly remove or exclude."
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