cool or chill in or as if in a refrigerator; "refrigerate this medicine" preserve by chilling; "many foods must be refrigerated or else they will spoil
If you refrigerate food, you make it cold, for example by putting it in a fridge, usually in order to preserve it. Refrigerate the dough overnight. to make something such as food or liquid cold in a refrigerator in order to preserve it (past participle of refrigerare, from frigerare )
[ ri-'fri-j&-"rAt ] (transitive verb.) 1534. Latin refrigeratus, past participle of refrigerare, from re- + frigerare to cool, from frigor-, frigus cold; more at FRIGID.