cooled

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UK/kuːld/US/kuld/

adjective

Brought to a lower temperature.

“a water-cooled engine”

OriginEnglish cool ← Middle English colen ← Old English cōlian →
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Meanings

adjective
  1. Brought to a lower temperature.

    Set one of the cooled cakes, with its top side down, on a cake stand or plate […].

    2010, Nigella Lawson, nigella.com, archived from the original on 29 May 2023
  2. With a descriptive word: brought to a lower temperature by means of.

    a water-cooled engine

  3. figurativelyBrought to a reduced degree of anger or fervour.
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of cool

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*gel-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*gól-
  3. Proto-Germanic*kalaną
  4. Proto-Germanic*kōluz
  5. Proto-West Germanic*kōl(ī)
  6. Proto-West Germanic*kōlēn
  7. Old Englishcōlian
  8. Middle Englishcolen
  9. Englishcool
  10. Englishcooled

From cool + -ed.

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Translations

Finnish jäähdytetty, jäähdytetty
  • jäähdytettybrought to a lower temperature
  • jäähdytettybrought to a reduced degree of anger
  • rauhoitettubrought to a reduced degree of anger
  • -jäähdytteinenbrought to a lower temperature by means of
Ukrainian ости́глий
  • ости́глий (ostýhlyj)brought to a lower temperature

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with cooled

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Anagrams

locoeddecool
Cite this entry
APA

cooled. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cooled

MLA

“cooled.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cooled. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cooled,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cooled.

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