refrigerate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   cool or chill in or as if in a refrigerator

   If we get too near the sun and get too warm, we have a refrigerating machine to cool us off.

Simplified etymology

Refrigerate entered English in the late Middle Ages from the Latin word family of frigidus, “cold,” and frigus, “cold.”

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

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