What does "refrigerate" mean?

To make (someone or something) cool; to cool down.

What is a synonym for "refrigerate"?

Common synonyms include: air condition, air-condition, air-cool, anhydrate, benumb, bite.

Pronounced //ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒəɹeɪt//.

//ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒəɹeɪt// verb

verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Verb

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
cool or chill in or as if in a refrigerator wordnet
3
To keep (something) cool by containing within a refrigerator. specifically, transitive
"Please refrigerate your uncooked meats at or below 40° Fahrenheit."
4
preserve by chilling wordnet

"I had failed to refrigerate the milk. It went so sour that it's inedible."

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

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.