🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

식힌

Pronunciation / Transliteration: sikhin

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Cooled/kuːld/
verbCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #1500 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"케이크는 카운터에서 식혔습니다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To make or become less warm.

    "After baking, the cake was left to cool on the counter."
  2. 2

    To lower the temperature of something.

    "The scientist cooled the liquid nitrogen to observe its properties."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'cooled' is the past tense and past participle of 'cool', which originates from the Old French 'coler', meaning 'to make cool', derived from the Latin 'calere', meaning 'to be warm'. Over time, the meaning has evolved to refer to reducing temperature or becoming less warm.

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