Freezing is commonly followed by to when talking about temperature. Freezing in usually refers to location. Freezing of is generally not an adjective pattern.
Use freezing to with temperatures: freezing to five degrees. Use freezing in when in introduces a place or environment: freezing in the garage. Freezing of is not a standard adjective pattern; of usually belongs to a noun phrase such as the freezing of water.
These forms are not interchangeable. Choose the construction by meaning, not by which preposition appears most often.
Use freezing to when temperatures fall to a specific point.
In can introduce the place where someone feels freezing cold.
Freezing of belongs to a noun structure, not an adjective pattern.
The same subject can take different constructions because each sentence answers a different question.
Some combinations appear in real text but do not mean what learners often assume.
Freezing of is usually part of a noun phrase, not an adjective plus preposition combination.
✕ We were freezing of cold. ✓ We were freezing with cold.Use in for places and to for temperature levels.
✕ It was freezing in minus five. ✓ It was freezing to minus five.Freezing in normally needs a location.
✕ They were freezing in. ✓ They were freezing in the garage.Choose the expression that matches the intended meaning.
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Yes, but usually as a noun phrase such as the freezing of water, not as an adjective pattern.
Yes. Freezing to death is a fixed expression meaning dying from extreme cold.
In introduces a place or environment, as in freezing in the mountains.
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