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Meaning and definition for "chill" word
[noun] an almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of surprise shot through him"
[noun] a sudden numbing dread
[noun] a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
[adjective] uncomfortably cool; "a chill wind"; "chilly weather"
[verb] loose heat; "The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm"
[verb] make cool or cooler; "Chill the food"
[verb] depress or discourage; "The news of the city's surrender chilled the soldiers"
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\Chill\, a. 1. Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw. Noisome winds, and blasting vapors chill. --Milton. 2. Affected by cold. ``My veins are chill.'' --Shak. 3. Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception. 4. Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.
\Chill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Chilled} (ch[i^]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Chilling}.] 1. To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold. When winter chilled the day. --Goldsmith. 2. To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage. Every thought on God chills the gayety of his spirits. --Rogers. 3. (Metal.) 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.
\Chill\, v. i. (Metal.) To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.
Synonyms for chill
chilly, cool, cool, cool down, frisson, gelidity, iciness, pall, quiver, shiver, shivering, shudder, thrill, tingle
Antonyms: heat, heat up, hot up
See also: alter | apprehension | apprehensiveness | cast down | change | change state | chill | cold | coldness | deject | demoralise | demoralize | depress | dismay | dispirit | dread | fear | fearfulness | fright | get down | ice | low temperature | quench | refrigerate | symptom | turn |
Related terms: abscess, aloof, blennorhea, chills, cold-blooded, cold creeps, coldness, cold water, colic, deadpan, demoralize, disaffect, disincline, distract, goose bumps, high blood pressure, icterus, impassivity, lack of affect, offishness, penetrate, polar, reserved, spasm, strain, temperate, unsusceptibility, unsympatheticness, wet blanket, zeallessness
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Let's analyse "chill" as pure text. This string has Five letters in One syllable and One vowel. 20% of vowels is 18.6% less then average English word. Written in backwards: LLIHC. Average typing speed for these characters is 1430 milliseconds. [info]
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chill: 9 = 9, reduced: 9 . and the final result is Nine. |
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