Definitions for chills

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chills chill

Spelling: [chil]

IPA: /tʃɪl/

Chills is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in chills (chills).

Definitions for chills

noun

1. coldness, especially a moderate but uncomfortably penetrating coldness:
2. a sensation of cold, usually with shivering:
3. a feeling of sudden fear, anxiety, or alarm.
4. sudden coldness of the body, as during the cold stage of an ague:
5. a depressing influence or sensation:
6. lack of warmth of feeling; unfriendliness; coolness.
7. 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.
8. 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 chills

before 900; Middle English chile, Old English ci(e)le, cele coolness; akin to gelid, cool, cold

Examples for chills

The Trainer's words, "The mare's coughin'," struck a chill to her heart.

She was at the stove, where an armful of kindling had been set off to take the chill out of the house.

Among its pebbles her feet still ran on, under the chill of icy water.

What he—and his friend holding the camera—heard in response was enough to chill them to the bone.

Yet, relative to the massive amount of attention, shock, and criticism, I can only muster a shrug and a plea to chill out.

Standing in the chill breeze of autumn, I knew something had passed between us.

The eyes that had always been warm in their glances on her were chill now.

If you prefer them chewy in the middle and crisp outside, chill the balls of dough.

It was a cold light, and the chill of it went through Andrew.

A chill coursed through me, but I resisted the urge to turn back.