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Chills

/tʃɪlz/

A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.

📖 Definitions of "Chills"

noun
  1. 1

    A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.

    "There was a chill in the air."

  2. 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. 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. 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.

verb
  1. 1

    To lower the temperature of something; to cool

    "Chill before serving."

  2. 2

    To become cold

    "In the wind he chilled quickly."

  3. 3

    To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling

  4. 4

    To become hard by rapid cooling

noun
  1. 1

    A feeling of being cold, a symptom of many conditions.

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