Word Finder - chill

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A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.

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There was a chill in the air.

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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.

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Close the window or you'll catch a chill.   I felt a chill when the wind picked up.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.

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A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.

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Calmness; equanimity.

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A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.

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To lower the temperature of something; to cool

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Chill before serving.

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To become cold

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In the wind he chilled quickly.

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To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling

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To become hard by rapid cooling

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To relax, lie back

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Chill, man, we've got a whole week to do it; no sense in getting worked up.

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To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group. Also chill out.

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Hey, we should chill this weekend.

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To smoke marijuana

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On Friday night do you wanna chill?

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To discourage, depress

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Censorship chills public discourse.

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Moderately cold or chilly.

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A chill wind was blowing down the street.

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Unwelcoming; not cordial.

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Arriving late at the wedding, we were met with a chill reception.

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Calm, relaxed, easygoing.

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Paint-your-own ceramics studios are a chill way to express yourself while learning more about your date's right brain.

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"Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.

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That new movie was chill, man.

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Okay, not a problem.

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"Sorry about that." "It's chill."

There was a chill in the breeze now.

A cold chill washed over him.

But there's a chill in the air and they'll be going indoors.

While she sounded relieved, there was a chill in the air like opening the door, expecting warm sunshine and forgetting it's December.

A chill ran through him.

She tasted slightly sweet, the heat of her mouth contrasting with the chill of her skin, and smelled of lake water.

It is not the chill of the night time that makes my body tremble.

She shook her head, searching his face for some explanation of the chill in his response to her.

A cold chill of fear swept through her.

That was when she noticed the chill bumps on his arm.

There was a chill, but once Dean began warming his muscles he felt comfortable in this familiar posture.

The chill of the shadow world made her shiver.

She stared at the back of his head, a chill running through her.

A chill went through her.

We're here at the invitation of the Ouray Police Department, Fitzgerald said, not even attempting to hide the chill in his voice.

Her door was ajar and the chill from an open window washed over him.

Franny had been first on the scene behind Dean, dressed only in panties, her arms covering her tiny breasts, shivering as much at the sight as the chill of the early winter morning.

The reason for the chill became evident as he took in his surroundings.

She shivered in the chill of dawn.

His friend Chanut fell dangerously ill; and Descartes, who devoted himself to attend in the sick-room, was obliged to issue from it every morning in the chill northern air of January, and spend an hour in the palace library.

At three o'clock this morning in a damp, chill mist all hands were roused to work.

It has top quality venues including a 1,100 capacity nightclub, a chill out bar and a sports bar.

Rostov looked at the young soldier and a cold chill ran down his back.

The prospect was so splendid that she hardly believed it would come true, so out of keeping was it with the chill darkness and closeness of the carriage.

It seemed that all these men, now that they had stopped amid fields in the chill dusk of the autumn evening, experienced one and the same feeling of unpleasant awakening from the hurry and eagerness to push on that had seized them at the start.

Fuming anyway, she pushed the curtains away from the balcony door and stepped into the night, winter's chill taking some of the heat out of her.

The growing night chill had driven Linda into Lon's arms, and she relaxed near the fire.

His words sent a chill through Sofia.

Morning dawned with the promised chill.

His penetrating gaze gave her a different kind of chill, one that made her blood quicken as well as her step.

The bedchamber was done up in pastels, soft rose drapes, light blue and green rugs, yellow pillows and highlights, which seemed to take the chill out of the stone walls.

She trotted after him and stepped into the evening chill.

She rose and shook out the chill.

Katie had never been so relieved to feel the chill of the shadow world!

Once able to sit upright, the pounding in his head commanded his attention, as well as the bone-numbing chill.

Ooh, a chill just ran up my spine.

At first they only brightened her heart, but as they continued, they gradually chased the chill away.

A chill swept through him as he realized how significant—and isolated—the command center was.

Her body shook off the chill by the first mile marker and by the second, the moon was directly overhead.

Andre didn't return.  Katie waited longer, until the chill of the night dried the sweat that'd covered her since they began running earlier.

Betty had murmured something about jogging, kissed him on the nose, wiggled on her meager duds and left the tent, with the flap open just enough to admit the predawn chill and a red glow that would soon be sunrise.

It was a cool day for the end of June, and when he opened the car door, it sent a chill up her back.

His solemn expression made a chill go up her spine.

A chill descended over the desert compound as the sun set.

The spleen continues to enlarge; the urine is now scanty and high-coloured; the body temperature is high, but the highest temperatures occur during the chill; there is considerable thirst; and there is the usual intellectual unfitness, and it may be confusion, of the feverish state.

He left home on the 21st of March, and caught a chill.

If we melt an alloy and chill it before it has wholly solidified, we often get evidence of the crystalline character of the solid matter which first forms. Fig.

The lighter part surrounding them was liquid before the chill; it is rich in tin.

We then extract one ingot after another at successively lower temperatures and chill each ingot by dropping it into water or by some other method of very rapid cooling.

In eastern Canada Ungava and Labrador are very chill and inhospitable, owing largely to the iceberg-laden current sweeping down the coast from Davis Strait, bringing fogs and long snowy winters and a temperature for the year much below the freezing-point.