'CHILL' definitions:
Definition of 'chill'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
An almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of surprise shot through him" [syn: frisson, shiver, chill, quiver, shudder, thrill, tingle]
noun
A sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever [syn: chill, shivering]
noun
A sudden numbing dread [syn: chill, pall]
verb
Depress or discourage; "The news of the city's surrender chilled the soldiers"
verb
verb
Definition of 'Chill'
From: GCIDE
- Chill \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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Chill'
From: GCIDE
- Chill \Chill\, a.
- 1. Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw. [1913 Webster]
- Noisome winds, and blasting vapors chill. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Affected by cold. "My veins are chill." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Chill'
From: GCIDE
- Chill \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. [1913 Webster]
- When winter chilled the day. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage. [1913 Webster]
- Every thought on God chills the gayety of his spirits. --Rogers. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Chill'
From: GCIDE
- Chill \Chill\ (ch[i^]l), n. [AS. cele, cyle, from the same root as celan, calan, to be cold; akin to D. kil cold, coldness, Sw. kyla to chill, and E. cool. See Cold, and cf. Cool.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering. "[A] wintry chill." --W. Irving. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Med.) 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly. [1913 Webster]
- 4. 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. --Raymond. [1913 Webster]
- 5. The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel. --Knight. [1913 Webster]
- Chill and fever, fever and ague. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'chill'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abscess,
- absolute zero,
- abstracted,
- ache,
- aching,
- affectless,
- ague,
- air-condition,
- air-cool,
- algidity,
- aloof,
- aloofness,
- anemia,
- anesthesia,
- anesthetized,
- ankylosis,
- anoxia,
- apnea,
- arctic,
- asphyxiation,
- asthma,
- ataxia,
- atrophy,
- autism,
- autistic,
- backache,
- be cold,
- benumb,
- benumbed,
- bite,
- bitterness,
- bleakness,
- bleeding,
- blennorhea,
- blunt,
- bracing,
- briskness,
- cachexia,
- cachexy,
- catatonia,
- catatonic,
- chatter,
- chilblains,
- chilliness,
- chilling,
- chills,
- chilly,
- cold,
- cold as charity,
- cold blood,
- cold creeps,
- cold heart,
- cold shivers,
- cold water,
- cold-blooded,
- coldhearted,
- coldheartedness,
- coldness,
- colic,
- constipation,
- convulsion,
- cool,
- coolish,
- coolness,
- coolth,
- coryza,
- coughing,
- creeps,
- crispness,
- cryogenics,
- cryology,
- cryopathy,
- cut,
- cyanosis,
- damp,
- dampen,
- damper,
- deadpan,
- decrease in temperature,
- deflect,
- deject,
- demoralize,
- depress,
- detachment,
- deter,
- determent,
- deterrent,
- diarrhea,
- didder,
- disaccordant,
- disaffect,
- disaffinity,
- discourage,
- discouragement,
- dishearten,
- disincline,
- disinterest,
- disinterested,
- disparage,
- dispassion,
- dispassionate,
- dispassionateness,
- dispirit,
- distance,
- distant,
- distract,
- distress,
- dither,
- dithers,
- divert,
- dizziness,
- dropsy,
- drugged,
- duck bumps,
- dull,
- dullness,
- dysentery,
- dyspepsia,
- dyspnea,
- edema,
- emaciation,
- emotional deadness,
- emotionally dead,
- emotionless,
- emotionlessness,
- enmity,
- fainting,
- fatigue,
- fervorlessness,
- fever,
- fibrillation,
- flu,
- flux,
- formal,
- freeze,
- freeze to death,
- freezing,
- freezing point,
- fresh,
- freshen,
- freshness,
- frigid,
- frigidity,
- frost,
- frostbite,
- frosted,
- frostiness,
- frosty,
- frozen,
- gelid,
- gelidity,
- glacial,
- go through,
- goose bumps,
- goose pimples,
- gooseflesh,
- grow cold,
- growth,
- halfheartedness,
- have a chill,
- have goose pimples,
- heartless,
- heartlessness,
- hemorrhage,
- high blood pressure,
- horripilate,
- horripilation,
- hostility,
- hydrops,
- hypertension,
- hypotension,
- ice,
- ice-cool,
- iciness,
- icterus,
- icy,
- immovability,
- immovable,
- impassibility,
- impassive,
- impassiveness,
- impassivity,
- inaccessibility,
- inclemency,
- incompatibility,
- incompatible,
- incompatibleness,
- indifference,
- indifferent,
- indifferentism,
- indifferentness,
- indigestion,
- indispose,
- inexcitability,
- inexcitable,
- inflammation,
- influenza,
- infrigidate,
- inhospitable,
- inhospitality,
- inimical,
- inimicality,
- insensitive,
- insipidity,
- insomnia,
- insusceptible,
- intense cold,
- invigorating,
- itching,
- jaundice,
- keenness,
- kibe,
- la grippe,
- labored breathing,
- lack of affect,
- lack of feeling,
- lack of touch,
- Laodiceanism,
- lose heat,
- low blood pressure,
- low temperature,
- lukewarmness,
- lumbago,
- marasmus,
- nasal discharge,
- nausea,
- necrosis,
- neuterness,
- neutrality,
- neutralness,
- nip,
- nippiness,
- nippy,
- nonemotional,
- numb,
- numbed,
- numbing,
- objective,
- objectivity,
- obtuse,
- obtuseness,
- offishness,
- out of touch,
- pain,
- paralysis,
- passionless,
- passionlessness,
- penetrate,
- penetrating,
- perfunctoriness,
- perish with cold,
- personal conflict,
- pierce,
- poker face,
- polar,
- pruritus,
- put off,
- quake,
- quench,
- quiver,
- rash,
- raw,
- rawness,
- refresh,
- refrigerate,
- remoteness,
- repel,
- reserved,
- rheum,
- rigor,
- sclerosis,
- seizure,
- self-absorbed,
- self-absorption,
- severity,
- shake,
- sharp air,
- sharpness,
- shiver,
- shivering,
- shivers,
- shock,
- shudder,
- skin eruption,
- sneezing,
- solitary,
- sore,
- soulless,
- soullessness,
- spasm,
- spiritless,
- spiritlessness,
- standoffish,
- standoffishness,
- stimulating,
- straight face,
- strain,
- strained,
- tabes,
- tachycardia,
- temperate,
- tense,
- tension,
- tepidness,
- the sniffles,
- tremble,
- tumor,
- turn aside,
- turn away,
- turn from,
- turn off,
- unaffectionate,
- unamiability,
- unamiable,
- unamicable,
- unapproachability,
- uncompanionable,
- uncordial,
- uncordiality,
- unemotional,
- unemotionalism,
- unexcitability,
- unfeeling,
- unfeelingness,
- unfriendliness,
- unfriendly,
- ungenial,
- ungeniality,
- unharmonious,
- unimpassioned,
- unimpressibility,
- unimpressionable,
- unimpressionableness,
- uninterested,
- unloving,
- unpassionate,
- unpassionateness,
- unresponding,
- unresponsive,
- unresponsiveness,
- unsociability,
- unsociable,
- unsusceptibility,
- unsusceptible,
- unsympathetic,
- unsympatheticness,
- untouchability,
- untouchable,
- upset stomach,
- vapidity,
- ventilate,
- vertigo,
- vomiting,
- wasting,
- wean from,
- wet blanket,
- wintry,
- withdrawal,
- withdrawn,
- withdrawnness,
- zeallessness
Acronyms for 'chill'
From: V.E.R.A.
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