chilling
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
chilling (comparative more chilling, superlative most chilling)
- Becoming cold.
- 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber 2007, p. 22:
- As they reached the street the ‘Duchess’ caught a swirling hem of lace about her chilling ankles.
- 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber 2007, p. 22:
- Causing cold.
- Causing mild fear.
- It was a chilling story, but the children enjoyed it.
- 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]
- Displaying a sturdy professionalism throughout that stops just short of artistry, director Gary Ross, who co-scripted with Collins and Billy Ray, does his strongest work in the early scenes, which set up the stakes with chilling efficiency.
Translations
becoming cold
causing cold
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causing mild fear
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Verb
chilling
Derived terms
Noun
chilling (plural chillings)
- The act by which something is chilled.
- 2004, Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus, page 73:
- To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]