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refrigerates

refrigerates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of refrigerate.

Meaning of refrigerate

Verb

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

  1. (broadly, obsolete, transitive) To make (someone or something) cool; to cool down.
    • Lo here hath euery fayth[f]ull man a ſure promiſe, yͭ in the feruent heate of tentacion or tribulacion […] God gyueth the faythful man yͭ hopeth in him, yͭ ſhadow of hys holy ſhoulders, which are brode ⁊ large, ſufficient to refrigerate ⁊ refreſhe the man in that heate, and in euerye trybulacion he...1534 (date written; published 1553), Thomas More, “A Dyalogue of Comforte agaynste Tribulacyon, […]. A Special Comfort in Al Temptacion.”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The...
  2. (specifically, transitive) To keep (something) cool by containing within a refrigerator.
    • Please refrigerate your uncooked meats at or below 40° Fahrenheit.
    Synonyms:
    fridge

Questions about refrigerates

What is refrigerates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Refrigerates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of refrigerate.

Words near refrigerates in the dictionary

  1. refrigerant
  2. refrigerants
  3. refrigeratable
  4. refrigerate
  5. refrigerated
  6. refrigerates
  7. refrigerating
  8. refrigeration
  9. refrigeration ton
  10. refrigeration tons
  11. refrigerational

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