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refrigerate (v.)
1530s, back-formation from refrigeration, or else from Latin refrigeratus, past participle of refrigerare "make cool or cold." Related: Refrigerated; refrigerating. Earlier words in the same sense of "to make cold, to cool" were infrigiden, infrigidate (both early 15c.).
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Dictionary entries near refrigerate
refrangible
refresh
refreshing
refreshment
refrigerant
refrigerate
refrigeration
refrigerator
refry
reft
refuel