Refrigerate

/ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒəɹeɪt/ verb

verb ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

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

Example

More examples

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

Etymology

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

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