Word of the Day:
refrigerate
What It Means
To make (someone or something) cool; to cool down.
To keep (something) cool by containing within a refrigerator.
Please refrigerate your uncooked meats at or below 40° Fahrenheit.
Refrigerate in Context
“[T]he other [artery] goes to the lungs, to fetch air to refrigerate the heart.”
Did You Know?
From participle stem of Latin refrigerō (“to make cold”), from re- + frigerō.
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