refrigerating

1. 1.

   causing cooling or freezing

   “a refrigerant substance such as ice or solid carbon dioxide”

   Synonymsrefrigerant

   Similarcold

Questions about refrigerating

What does refrigerating mean?

refrigerating means "causing cooling or freezing".

How many syllables are in refrigerating?

refrigerating has 5 syllables: re-fri-ge-ra-ting. The stress falls on "ge".

What is another word for refrigerating?

Close synonyms include refrigerant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is refrigerating a common word?

refrigerating is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.