Definition of chills Chills
/ʧɪˈlz/ - [chilz] -
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What does chills mean?
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Part of speech
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NounPlural: chills |
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| chill - coldness due to a cold environment | ||
| iciness, gelidity | ||
| low temperature, cold, coldness, frigidity, frigidness the sensation produced by low temperatures; "he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head" | ||
| chill - a sudden numbing dread | ||
| pall | ||
| apprehensiveness, dread, apprehension the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal); "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar" | ||
| chill - a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever | ||
| shivering | ||
| symptom anything that accompanies X and is regarded as an indication of X's existence | ||
| chill - an almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of surprise shot through him" | ||
| frisson, shiver, quiver, shudder, thrill, tingle | ||
| fright, fearfulness, fear the trait of being afraid | ||
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| chill - depress or discourage; "The news of the city's surrender chilled the soldiers" | ||
| cast down, deject, dispirit, demoralise, dismay, demoralize, depress, get down fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised; "I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview"; "The news of the executions horrified us" | ||
| chill - make cool or cooler; "Chill the food" | ||
| cool, cool down | ||
| heat up, heat make more intense; "Emotions were screwed up" | ||
| modify, alter, change make less severe or harsh or extreme; "please modify this letter to make it more polite"; "he modified his views on same-gender marriage" | ||
| quench cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid; "quench steel" | ||
| ice put ice on or put on ice; "Ice your sprained limbs" | ||
| refrigerate cool or chill in or as if in a refrigerator; "refrigerate this medicine" | ||
| chill - loose heat; "The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm" | ||
| cool, cool down | ||
| heat up, hot up, heat make more intense; "Emotions were screwed up" | ||
| change state, turn undergo a transformation or a change of position or action; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election" | ||
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Wiktionary
- chill (Noun)
A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness. - chill (Noun)
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: close the window or you'll catch a chill. - chill (Noun)
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. - chill (Verb)
To lower the temperature of something; to cool. - chill (Verb)
To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling. - chill (Verb)
To become cold. - chill (Verb)
To become hard by rapid cooling. - chill (Verb)
To relax, lie back. - chill (Verb)
To " hang", hang out ; to spend time with another person or group. Also chill out . - chill (Verb)
To smoke marijuana. - chill (Adjective)
Moderately cold or chilly. - chill (Adjective)
Calm, relaxed, easygoing. See also: chill out . - chill (Adjective)
" Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- chill (n.)
A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering. - chill (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. - chill (n.)
A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly. - chill (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. - chill (n.)
The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel. - chill (a.)
Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw. - chill (a.)
Affected by cold. - chill (a.)
Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception. - chill (a.)
Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting. - chill (v. t.)
To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold. - chill (v. t.)
To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage. - chill (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. - chill (v. i.)
To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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Coldness due to a cold environment. -
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To make cold. -
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To become less tense, rest, or take one's ease. -
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To relax, to lie back.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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chill
chil, n. coldness: a cold that causes shivering: anything that damps or disheartens.—adj. shivering with cold: slightly cold: opposite of cordial.—v.i. to grow cold.—v.t. to make chill or cold: to blast with cold: to discourage.—adj. Chilled, made cold: hardened by chilling, as iron.—n. Chill′iness.—adj. Chill′ing, cooling, cold.—n. Chill′ness.—adj. Chilly, that chills: somewhat chill.—Take the chill off, to give a slight heat: to make lukewarm. [A.S. cele, ciele, cold. See Cold, Cool.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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chill
Rocella tinctorum fucus, a lichen found on the rocks of the Canary and Cape de Verde groups; it yields a rich purple. Litmus, largely used in chemistry, is derived from it.
