Definitions for chiller

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chiller chill·er

Spelling: [chil-er]

IPA: /ˈtʃɪl ər/

Chiller is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 101 anagrams from letters in chiller (cehillr).

Definitions for chiller

noun

1. a person or thing that chills.
2. Informal. a frightening or suspenseful story or film; melodrama.
3. a device for cooling or refrigerating.
4. coldness, especially a moderate but uncomfortably penetrating coldness:
5. a sensation of cold, usually with shivering:
6. a feeling of sudden fear, anxiety, or alarm.
7. sudden coldness of the body, as during the cold stage of an ague:
8. a depressing influence or sensation:
9. lack of warmth of feeling; unfriendliness; coolness.
10. Foundry. an inserted object or a surface in a mold capable of absorbing large amounts of heat, used to harden the surface of a casting or to increase its rate of solidification at a specific point.
11. bloom1 (def 12).

Idioms

1. take a chill pill, Slang. See chill pill (def 2).

adjective

1. moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly:
2. shivering with or affected by cold; chilly.
3. depressing or discouraging:
4. Slang. cool (def 14).
5. unduly formal; unfriendly; chilly:

verb (used with object)

1. to affect with cold; make chilly:
2. to make cool:
3. to depress; discourage; deter:
4. Foundry. to harden the surface of (a casting) by casting it in a mold having a chill or chills.
5. bloom1 (def 22).
6. Slang. to kill; murder.

verb (used without object)

1. to become cold:
2. to be seized with a chill; shiver with cold or fear.
3. Foundry. (of a casting) to become hard on the surface by contact with a chill or chills.
4. Slang. to calm down; relax (often followed by out).

Origin of chiller

First recorded in 1790-1800; chill + -er¹

Examples for chiller

They were chill, I cast no doubt: and all the chiller for the hand that chilled them.

Still he sleeps; he will not waken, Fastly closed is his eye; Paler is his cheek, and chiller Than the icy moon on high.

He have took my little Zip along of his own chiller, and a' maneth to make a lady on her.

“There be chiller gear than snow, maid,” replied the mother bitterly.

As she entered the darker tree-shadows beyond, she stopped suddenly, a chiller fear shaking her.

Already the chiller mountain breezes following the heat spell were making visitors close their windows.