Refrigerate

Quick meaning: Refrigerate is a verb meaning (transitive, obsolete in general sense) To make (someone or something) cool; to cool down.

Meaning

(transitive, obsolete in general sense) To make (someone or something) cool; to cool down.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, specifically) To keep (something) cool by containing within a refrigerator.

Example Sentences

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

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

Persons born in winter are, so to say, of a cold and frosty disposition and can thereby exert a refrigerating influence on the temperature of the air.

They vvould go over board vvith a Rope faſtned about them, that by drenching themſelves a vvhile in the Sea, they might eaſe the internal Heat vvhich parched them; and vvhen they ſtood any of them to ſteer the Veſſel, they vvould have their Feet in a Pail of Sea VVater to refrigerate 'em.

Word Forms

• refrigerates
• refrigerating
• refrigerated

Synonyms for refrigerate

Depending on context, synonyms include fridge.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chilling, freeze, chill, refrigerant, leftovers, frigerate.

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