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Chills
/tʃɪlz/
A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
📖 Definitions of "Chills"
- 1
A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
"There was a chill in the air."
- 2
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. I felt a chill when the wind picked up."
- 3
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.
"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."
- 4
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.
- 1
To lower the temperature of something; to cool
"Chill before serving."
- 2
To become cold
"In the wind he chilled quickly."
- 3
To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling
- 4
To become hard by rapid cooling
- 1
A feeling of being cold, a symptom of many conditions.
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