Definitions for chilling

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chilling chill·ing

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IPA: /ˈtʃɪl ɪŋ/

Chilling is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in chilling (cghiilln).

Definitions for chilling

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. causing or likely to cause a chill:
2. moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly:
3. shivering with or affected by cold; chilly.
4. depressing or discouraging:
5. Slang. cool (def 14).
6. 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 chilling

chill + -ing²

Examples for chilling

Neither, too, was as chilling, as affecting, or, at times, as much of a slog.

It is a chilling thought to doubt, yet how can we have confidence!

I dare say my gaze was of the most chilling character and steady.

But the simultaneously gripping and chilling hold of Serial is that its characters are real people.

Marthe had felt a cold breath, chilling the roots of her hair.

Having sufficiently wet ourselves, we viewers are left with a chilling, black-and-white image of blood circling the shower drain.

Imagine the chilling effect this would have on senators thinking about sticking around for a fourth term and beyond.

The horror once more was chilling his blood, floating before his eyes.

The result can be the indifference that appears so chilling in the Garner video.

It was chilling to meet with this unexpected and sudden check at so critical a moment.