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  • adjective Below freezing.

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  • adjective Colder than the freezing point of water, below 0 degrees C or 32 degrees F.

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Examples

  • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Hundreds crowded onto Monument Circle in subfreezing temperatures Sunday night in downtown Indianapolis to celebrate the Colts 'Super Bowl victory.

    'We're not some podunk town anymore' 2007

  • Twenty-seven pieces of equipment showcased were only given to soldiers working in extreme conditions, such as subfreezing temperatures and high-elevation work in Afghanistan for

    GazetteOnline.com 2010

  • Twenty-seven pieces of equipment showcased were only given to soldiers working in extreme conditions, such as subfreezing temperatures and high-elevation work in Afghanistan for Operation Enduring Freedom.

    GazetteOnline.com 2010

  • I was among a group of volunteers who stood along Elm Street in downtown Manchester in subfreezing weather on a Sunday morning and proclaimed "We're freezing for a reason!" as we held campaign posters.

    Michael K. Lavers: A New Hampshire Native Returns Home to Cover the Primary Michael K. Lavers 2012

  • I was among a group of volunteers who stood along Elm Street in downtown Manchester in subfreezing weather on a Sunday morning and proclaimed "We're freezing for a reason!" as we held campaign posters.

    Michael K. Lavers: A New Hampshire Native Returns Home to Cover the Primary Michael K. Lavers 2012

  • I mean, I chase alpacas a mile every night in subfreezing conditions, and I will never get an Xbox.

    Christmas Magic Caleb Stright 2011

  • Michael Cole, who holds a state python hunting permit and helped teach the class, says two days of subfreezing temperatures last winter proved the snakes can't survive outside South Florida.

    Plan to block giant snakes in Florida may hurt businesses 2010

  • The first stage of the Adolf-666 fell away in the subfreezing black sky above the Atlantic Ocean, with the gunshot bangs of the explosive bolts, the scream of tortured exospheric oxy-nitrogen on hypersonic aluminum, and the roar of the modified A4 upper stage's ethyl alcohol/liquid oxygen engine electrically ignited and blasting like a blowtorch from Hell.

    MIND MELD: The Best Spaceships in Written Science Fiction 2010

  • The Buddhists endured subfreezing temperatures to hold the rite at Jogye Temple, the headquarters of the Jogye Order, South Korea's largest Buddhist sect.

    Buddhists pray for animals killed to halt disease outbreak 2011

  • The Buddhists endured subfreezing temperatures to hold the rite at Jogye Temple, the headquarters of the Jogye Order, South Korea's largest Buddhist sect.

    Buddhists pray for animals killed to halt disease outbreak 2011

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