A sharp burst of cold air or icy temperatures is a chill. The chill of a January day in New England might make you dream of moving to New Mexico.
A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.
Noun
coldness due to a cold environment
Noun
an almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of surprise shot through him"
Noun
a sudden numbing dread
Noun
a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
Verb
loose heat; "The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm"
Verb
make cool or cooler; "Chill the food"
Verb
depress or discourage; "The news of the city''s surrender chilled the soldiers"
Adjective S.
uncomfortably cool; "a chill wind"; "chilly weather"
n.
A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable
sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.
n.
A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body,
pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the
body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some
constitutional disturbance, as of a fever.
n.
A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement;
as, a chill comes over an assembly.
n.
An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly,
and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with
it.
n.
The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel.
a.
Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.
a.
Affected by cold.
a.
Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking
enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception.
a.
Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.
v. t.
To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to
shiver; to affect with cold.
v. t.
To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress;
to discourage.
v. t.
To produce, by sudden cooling, a change of
crystallization at or near the surface of, so as to increase the
hardness; said of cast iron.
v. i.
To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while
solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than
others.
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Noisome winds, and blasting vapors chill.2.
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When winter chilled the day.2.
Every thought on God chills the gayety of his spirits.3.
Chill
A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.
Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.
To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold.
To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying;
Usage Examples
Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.
I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.
Melanie Fiona is a singer, a songwriter, she's a super-girl. I can be silly, goofy, really chilled. She's like your cool chill girlfriend, sister-friend. I'm just like everybody else.
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Other Usage ExamplesDeath is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
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