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 Definitions of Chill  [ʃɪl]  

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Definition of 'Chill' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) chill
an uncomfortably penetrating coldness.

2.  chill
a sensation of cold, usu. with shivering.

3.  chill
a sudden fear or alarm.

4.  chill
a depressing influence or feeling:
His presence cast a chill over everyone.

5.  chill
unfriendliness; coolness.

6. (adj.) chill
moderately cold; chilly.

7.  chill
depressing or discouraging:
chill prospects.

8.  chill
Slang.

9.  chill
distant or aloof; unfriendly.

10. (v.i.) chill
to become cold.

11.  chill
to be seized with a chill.

12. (v.t.) chill
to affect with cold.

13.  chill
to make cool:
Chill the wine before serving.

14.  chill
to depress; discourage; disturb.

15.  chill
Slang. to kill; murder.

16.  chill
Slang. to calm down; relax.

Etymology:  (bef. 900; ME

Definition of 'Chill' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) chill, iciness, gelidity
coldness due to a cold environment

2. (noun) frisson, shiver, chill, quiver, shudder, thrill, tingle
an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
"a frisson of surprise shot through him"

3. (noun) chill, shivering
a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever

4. (verb) chill, pall
a sudden numbing dread

5. (verb) chill
depress or discourage
"The news of the city's surrender chilled the soldiers"

6. (verb) cool, chill, cool down
make cool or cooler
"Chill the food"

7. (verb) cool, chill, cool down
loose heat
"The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm"


Definition of 'Chill' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (verb) chill
to cool before eating
Chill the fruit salad before serving.; Make sure the wine has time to chill.

2.  chill
to relax
a weekend just chilling at home


Definition of 'Chill' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) Chill
moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw

2. (adj) Chill
affected by cold

3. (adj) Chill
characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception

4. (adj) Chill
discouraging; depressing; dispiriting

5. (noun) Chill
a moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering

6. (noun) Chill
a sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever

7. (noun) Chill
a check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly

8. (noun) Chill
an iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it

9. (noun) Chill
the hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel

10. (verb) Chill
to strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold

11. (verb) Chill
to check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage

12. (verb) Chill
to produce, by sudden cooling, a change of crystallization at or near the surface of, so as to increase the hardness; said of cast iron

13. (verb) Chill
to become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others


Translation of 'Chill' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: coldness
There's a chill in the air.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: koudheid Arabic flag Arabic: بُرودَه، قَشْعَريرَه Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: студ
Brazilian flag Brazilian: friagem Czech flag Czech: chlad, zima German flag German: die Kälte
Danish flag Danish: kølighed; kulde Greek flag Greek: ψύχρα Spanish flag Spanish: frío
Estonian flag Estonian: kõledus, külmus Farsi flag Farsi: سرما؛ خنکی Finnish flag Finnish: kylmyys
French flag French: froid Hebrew flag Hebrew: קוֹר Hindi flag Hindi: ठंड
Croatian flag Croatian: hladnoća, studen Hungarian flag Hungarian: hideg Indonesian flag Indonesian: dingin
Icelandic flag Icelandic: kuldi, nepja Italian flag Italian: freddo Japanese flag Japanese: 寒気
Korean flag Korean: 냉기 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: šaltis, šaltukas Latvian flag Latvian: vēsums; dzestrums
Malay flag Malay: kesejukan Dutch flag Dutch: kilte Norwegian flag Norwegian: kulde, kjølighet
Polish flag Polish: chłód Persian flag Persian: سرما؛ خنکی Pashto flag Pashto: ساړه
Portuguese flag Portuguese: friagem Romanian flag Romanian: răcoare Russian flag Russian: холод; прохлада
Slovak flag Slovak: chlad Slovenian flag Slovenian: hlad Serbian flag Serbian: hladnoća
Swedish flag Swedish: kyla Thai flag Thai: ความหนาวเย็น Turkish flag Turkish: serinlik; soğuk hava
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 寒氣 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: холод Urdu flag Urdu: ٹھنڈک ، خنکی
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: sự ớn lạnh Chinese flag Chinese: 寒冷

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