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 ## Freezing
 
-Lending an immutable pointer to an object freezes it and prevents mutation.
+Lending a mutable pointer to an object freezes it and prevents mutation.
 `Freeze` objects have freezing enforced statically at compile-time. An example
 of a non-`Freeze` type is [`RefCell<T>`][refcell].