refrigerate
/ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒəɹeɪt/ verb
Forms refrigerates refrigerating refrigerated
- verb (transitive, obsolete in general sense) To make (someone or something) cool; to cool down.
- verb (transitive, specifically) To keep (something) cool by containing within a refrigerator. “Please refrigerate your uncooked meats at or below 40° Fahrenheit.”
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Etymology
From participle stem of Latin refrigerō (“to make cold”), from re- + frigerō.
Webster’s 1913
Etymology [L. refrigeratus, p. p. cf. refrigerare; pref. re- re- + grigerare to make cool, fr. fragus, frigoris, coolness. See Frigid.]
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “refrigerate”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details