refrigerate

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

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒəɹeɪt/

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refrigerate (third-person singular simple present refrigerates, present participle refrigerating, simple past and past participle refrigerated)

1. (transitive, obsolete in general sense) To cool down, make cool.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

     , Bk.I, New York 2001, p.149:

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

   • 1900, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 104:

     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. (transitive) Now specifically, to keep cool by containing within a refrigerator.

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

• (within a refrigerator): fridge

• refrigerant
• refrigeration
• refrigerator

• refrigeration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

refrigerate

1. inflection of refrigerare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

refrigerate f pl

1. feminine plural of refrigerato

refrīgerāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of refrīgerō

refrigerate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of refrigerar combined with te