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verb

Chill v. t. (past & past part. chilled; pres. part. chilling)

To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold. "When winter chilled the day."

To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage. "Every thought on God chills the gayety of his spirits."

(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.

adjective

Chilling adj. Making chilly or cold; depressing; discouraging; cold; distant; as, a chilling breeze; a chilling manner.

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Etymology of 'Chilling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... higher and darker, and beneath them a torrent roared, half seen between bare limestone crags. And around them was neither tree nor bush, while from the white peaks of Parnes the snow-blasts swept down the glen, cutting and chilling, till a horror fell on Theseus as he looked round at that doleful place. And he asked at last, "Your castle stands, it seems, in ...

— Types of Children's Literature • Edited by Walter Barnes

... man of an age, Mirabeau was wanting only in honesty. The people were not his devotees, but his instruments. His faith was in posterity. His conscience existed only in his thought. The fanaticism of his ideas was quite human. The chilling materialism of his age had crusht in his heart all expansive force, and craving for imperishable things. His dying words were: "Sprinkle me with perfumes, crown me with flowers, that I may thus enter upon eternal sleep." He was especially of his ...

— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)--Continental Europe I • Various

... long past midnight when he reached town, his mood chilling indefinably at sight of its ...

— Terry - A Tale of the Hill People • Charles Goff Thomson

... OF MANNER.—While captiousness of manner, and the habit of disputing and contradicting every thing said, is chilling and repulsive, the opposite habit of assenting to, and sympathizing with, every statement made, or emotion expressed, is almost equally disagreeable. It is unmanly, and is felt to be dishonest. "It may seem difficult," says Richard ...

— Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners • B.G. Jefferis

... hospitals and medical units. The nipping wind of reality had blown into the back drawing-room. The committee was daunted. But some of its members, less daunted than the rest, had the presence of mind to wonder why it seemed strange and strangely chilling that a rather coarse, stout woman with a cockney accent and little social refinement should have passed through, and emerged so successfully from, the unimaginable retreat. If Nurse Smaith had been beautiful and slim ...

— The Pretty Lady • Arnold E. Bennett

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