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Refrigerant

Cooling; allaying heat or fever.

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Cold 84% connected

Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.

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Cold 84% connected

Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.

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Substance 76% connected

That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in whic…

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Refrigerate 74% connected

To cause to become cool; to make or keep cold or cool.

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Refrigerate 74% connected

To cause to become cool; to make or keep cold or cool.

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Refrigerating 92% connected

of Refrigerate

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Ague noun · 78% connection

The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever; as, fever and ague.

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Air noun · 78% connection

To expose to the air for the purpose of cooling, refreshing, or purifying; to ventilate; as, to air a room.

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Alcarraza noun · 78% connection

A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids by evaporation from the exterior surface.

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Allayment noun · 78% connection

An allaying; that which allays; mitigation.

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Antipyretic adjective · 78% connection

Efficacious in preventing or allaying fever.

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Apyretic adjective · 78% connection

Without fever; -- applied to days when there is an intermission of fever.

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Atomizer noun · 78% connection

One who, or that which, atomizes; esp., an instrument for reducing a liquid to spray for disinfecting, cooling, or perfuming.

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Atonic noun · 78% connection

A remedy capable of allaying organic excitement or irritation.

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Back noun · 78% connection

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or co…

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Burn verb · 78% connection

To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some pr…

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Caloric noun · 78% connection

The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; -- not now used in scientifi…

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Cauma noun · 78% connection

Great heat, as of the body in fever.

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Chatty noun · 78% connection

A porous earthen pot used in India for cooling water, etc.

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Chill noun · 78% connection

A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body o…

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Contract verb · 78% connection

To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cooling, allaying, heat, fever.
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Cooling p.a. · 78% connection

Adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat.

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Dengue noun · 78% connection

A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of…

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Entropy noun · 78% connection

A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remain…

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