refrigerate

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
16
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒəɹeɪt/

Definition of refrigerate

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (broadly, obsolete, transitive)To make (someone or something) cool; to cool down.
    “[T]he other [artery] goes to the lungs, to fetch air to refrigerate the heart.”
    “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.”
    “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.”
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verb

  1. (broadly, obsolete, transitive)To make (someone or something) cool; to cool down.
    “[T]he other [artery] goes to the lungs, to fetch air to refrigerate the heart.”
    “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.”
    “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.”
  2. (specifically, transitive)To keep (something) cool by containing within a refrigerator.
    “Please refrigerate your uncooked meats at or below 40° Fahrenheit.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

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

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