refrigerate

Definition

To make (someone or something) cool; to cool down.

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

• "[T]he other [artery] goes to the lungs, to fetch air to refrigerate the heart."
• "They vvould go over board vvith a Rope faſtned about them, that by drenching themſelves a vvhile in the Sea, they might eaſe the internal Heat vvhich parched them; and vvhen they ſtood any of them to ſteer the Veſſel, they vvould have their Feet in a Pail of Sea VVater to refrigerate 'em."
• "Persons born in winter are, so to say, of a cold and frosty disposition and can thereby exert a refrigerating influence on the temperature of the air."

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