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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Chilling" Quotes from Famous Books

... going down to your berth?" I asked of Hilda, about half-past ten that night; "the air is so much colder here than you have been feeling it of late, that I'm afraid of your chilling yourself." ...

— Hilda Wade - A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose • Grant Allen

... is Afric but the home Of burning Phlegethon? What the low beach and silent gloom, And chilling mists of that dull river, Along whose bank the thin ghosts shiver, The thin, wan ghosts that once were men, But Tauris, isle of moor and fen; Or, dimly traced by seaman's ken, The ...

— Callista • John Henry Cardinal Newman

... cried McAlpin, all the superstitious fear of his mixed blood chilling him. "You——" And then as if daring the fate she had it in her power to evoke, he rushed toward her and clasped her close in his strong arms. His face was bent over hers, his lips parted from his cruel teeth, but he did not ...

— The Place Beyond the Winds • Harriet T. Comstock

... of emotional "groping"—what he had called in Winesburg, Ohio the "indefinable hunger" that prods and torments people. It became the critical fashion to see Anderson's "gropings" as a sign of delayed adolescence, a failure to develop as a writer. Once he wrote a chilling reply to those who dismissed him in this way: "I don't think it matters much, all this calling a man a muddler, a groper, etc.... The very man who throws such words as these knows in his heart that he is also facing a wall." This remark seems to me both dignified and strong, yet it ...

— Winesburg, Ohio • Sherwood Anderson

... fadeless, no chilling winds blow, No frost has embraced thee, no mantle of snow; Then hail to each sunbeam whose swift airy flight Speeds on for thy valleys each hill-top and height! To clothe them in glory then die 'mid the roar Of the sea-waves which echo far up from the shore! They will rest for a day, as if bound ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 • Various

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