refrigerate
verb (used with object)
to make or keep cold or cool, as for preservation.
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
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Ideally, you will have refrigerated your leftover turkey as soon as it was cool – within 90 minutes or so – and picked the carcass clean of meat.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 26, 2020