refrigerate

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈfɹɪdʒəɹeɪt/

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.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970:

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

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

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

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

• refrigerant
• refrigeration
• refrigerator

• refrigeration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

refrigerate

1. second-person plural present indicative of refrigerare
2. second-person plural imperative of refrigerare
3. feminine plural of refrigerato

refrīgerāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of refrīgerō