chills
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Definitions ofchills
- A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
Example: "There was a chill in the air."
- A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
Example: "Close the window or you'll catch a chill. I felt a chill when the wind picked up."
- An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
Example: "Despite the heat, he felt a chill as he entered the crime scene. The actor's eerie portrayal sent chills through the audience. His menacing presence cast a chill over everyone."
- An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
- The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
- A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
- Calmness; equanimity.
- A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
- To lower the temperature of something; to cool
Example: "Chill before serving."
- To become cold
Example: "In the wind he chilled quickly."
- To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling
- To become hard by rapid cooling
- To relax, lie back
Example: "Chill, man, we've got a whole week to do it; no sense in getting worked up."
- To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group. Also chill out.
Example: "Hey, we should chill this weekend."
- To smoke marijuana
Example: "On Friday night do you wanna chill?"
- To discourage, depress
Example: "Censorship chills public discourse."
- A feeling of being cold, a symptom of many conditions.
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