From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfreeze somebody ↔ out phrasal verbPREVENTto deliberately prevent someone from being involved in something, by making it difficult for them, being unkind to them etc Why did you freeze me out? → freeze→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
freeze out• Crack it with an ax and freezing water gushes out.• Willing my heart to beat normally, I defy the urge to turn back or freeze or cry out.• Golden Freeze cut out much of the early running but Waterloo Boy moved smoothly into the lead three out.• I now decided it was time to freeze him out of bed by opening the door wide and leaving it like that.• But wrap up well before you go through that garden because it's enough to freeze you out there.• The meeting had finished late and Don would be freezing to death out there.• She froze him out; went limp in his arms and let her lips go slack under his. 