refrigerating

verb

present participle of refrigerate
as in freezing
to cause to lose heat refrigerate the cake after you frost it so that the frosting doesn't melt

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Recent Examples of refrigerating Practice good food safety habits—such as refrigerating and thoroughly cooking eggs—to reduce the risk of food poisoning. — Amy Brownstein, Verywell Health, 23 July 2026 Violations included visibly spoiled, expired milk; selling homemade desserts without approval; and not refrigerating perishable foods properly. — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, AZCentral.com, 23 July 2026 The agency says people can prevent infection by thoroughly washing produce, cutting away bruised or damaged parts of fruits and vegetables and refrigerating pre-prepared or pre-cut produce. — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 13 July 2026 Storing the jar upside down before refrigerating can also help redistribute the oils more evenly. — Anne Wolf, Martha Stewart, 1 July 2026 White settlers used the caves for refrigerating food, mining saltpeter, and making moonshine. — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 15 June 2026 Scoop it after it was done refrigerating and then rolled it in confectioner sugar and baked them. — Emily Elias, Bon Appetit Magazine, 3 June 2026 That often means refrigerating them to ensure the microorganisms stay alive and the product doesn’t spoil. — Isabel Vasquez Rd Ldn, Health, 15 May 2026 Research opens a channel, but more is needed Since refrigerating people wasn’t a viable treatment, chemists and pharmacologists needed to create a small molecule that could replicate what happened in the cold. — Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for refrigerating
  1. freezing
  2. cooling
  3. chilling
Verb
  • The city is eliminating 51 positions and freezing 91 positions for half the year and 29 positions for the full year.
    — Jack Fink, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • In 2024, there were more than 39,000 egg retrieval or freezing cycles in the United States, up from 6,090 in 2014.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of freezing
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  • Energy density optimization for scalability The architecture also removes the need for bulky cooling plates, air ducts, and wide safety gaps between individual modules.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2026
  • These include building or upgrading cooling systems and scheduling maintenance outside periods of extreme heat.
    — , CNBC, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of cooling
Verb
  • Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow was seen over the weekend chilling on the field with Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model Olivia Ponton after practice.
    — Sean Joseph OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2026
  • If the dough is still too sticky after chilling, mix in a small amount of flour, lightly dust your hands and work surface with flour, or pipe the dough instead of rolling or shaping it by hand, David suggests.
    — Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of chilling

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