refrigerate
verb (used with object)
to make or keep cold or cool, as for preservation.
had been refrigerating
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past perfect progressiveof refrigerate.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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They tore away the snow and uncovered the whole carcass of a winter-killed elk that had been refrigerating there for months.
From The Yellow Horde by Charles Livingston Bull
