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refrigerating

refrigerating is the present participle and gerund 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

Adjective

refrigerating (comparative more refrigerating, superlative most refrigerating)

  1. Causing refrigeration.
    • A new refrigerating system will be installed in the packinghouse next month.

Noun

refrigerating (uncountable)

  1. The act or process of refrigerating.
    • Refrigerating is just as important as handwashing to the food safety program.
    Synonyms:
    refrigeration

Synonyms of refrigerating

Forms of refrigerating

comparativemore refrigerating
superlativemost refrigerating

Questions about refrigerating

What does refrigerating mean?
Refrigerating means causing refrigeration.
What is refrigerating the present participle and gerund of?
Refrigerating is the present participle and gerund of refrigerate.
What part of speech is refrigerating?
Refrigerating can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near refrigerating in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: refrigerating (page history and authors); refrigerate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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