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Refrigerate

//ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒəɹeɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make (someone or something) cool; to cool down. broadly, obsolete, transitive

    "[T]he other [artery] goes to the lungs, to fetch air to refrigerate the heart."

  2. 2
    cool or chill in or as if in a refrigerator wordnet
  3. 3
    To keep (something) cool by containing within a refrigerator. specifically, transitive

    "Please refrigerate your uncooked meats at or below 40° Fahrenheit."

  4. 4
    preserve by chilling wordnet

Etymology

From participle stem of Latin refrigerō (“to make cold”), from re- + frigerō.

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