Chill

Definition: Chill

Chill

Adjective

1. Uncomfortably cool; "a chill wind"; "chilly weather".

Noun

1. Coldness due to a cold environment.

2. An almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of surprise shot through him".

3. A sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever.

4. A sudden numbing dread.

Verb

1. Depress or discourage; "The news of the city's surrender chilled the soldiers".

2. Make cool or cooler; "Chill the food".

3. Loose heat; The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "chill" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

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CHILL

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Synonyms: Chill

Cold

Adjective: cold, cool; chill, chilly; icy; gelid, frigid, algid; fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching; clay-cold; starved. (made cold); chilled to the bone, shivering. Verb: aguish, transi de froid; frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped.

Chilliness. Adjective: chill; shivering. Verb: goose skin, horripilation; rigor; chattering of teeth; numbness, frostbite.

Chill, freeze. (render cold); horripilate, make the skin crawl, give one goose flesh.

Dissuasion

Disincline, indispose, shake, stagger; dispirit; discourage, dishearten; deter; repress, hold back, keep back; (restrain); render averse; repel; turn aside; (deviation); wean from; act as a drag; (hinder); throw cold water on, damp, cool, chill, blunt, calm, quiet, quench; deprecate.

Refrigeration

Verb: cool, fan, refrigerate, refresh, ice; congeal, freeze, glaciate; benumb, starve, pinch, chill, petrify, chill to the marrow, regelate, nip, cut, pierce, bite, make one's teeth chatter,

Crosswords: Chill

It's chill, it's fresh, it's Noah's Arcade (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers, Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner)

Like, chill out, Scrappy (Scooby-Doo; writing credit: William Hanna; Joseph Barbera)

I'm feeling the chill of middle age. I need the warmth of a good woman (Oliver's Travels; writing credit: Alan Plater)

You must chill! You must chill (Say Anything...; writing credit: Cameron Crowe)

Chill the pill and have a wee snout (Fancy Dress; writing credit: Jon Wright)

Chill out, whatcha yellin' for (Complicated; performing artist: Avril Lavigne)

I'm so chill, no wonder it's freezing (Falling For The First Time; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

And just chill with Brat (That's What I'm Looking For; performing artist: Da Brat)

If you did then maybe we could chill ("Bills, Bills, Bills"; performing artist: Destiny's Child)

You can't take back every little chill you gave me (If I Fall You're Going Down With Me; performing artist: Dixie Chicks)

The Chill Factor (1973)

Chill Factor (1990)

The Black Chill (1986)

Deep Chill (1985)

The Big Chill (1983)

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Books

• Chill Before Serving: A Mystery for Food Lovers (reference)

• Chill Factor (reference)

• Chill Wind (reference)

• More Hot Stuff to Help Kids Chill Out: The Anger and Stress Management Book (reference)

• Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Big Chill (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Classical Chill (reference)

• Hed Kandi: Winter Chill 06.02 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• AT&T 1818 Digital Answering System Telephone (Wind Chill White) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Arctic sunset - there's a chill in the air and the night's are getting longer It's time to head south. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

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A sudden terror seemed to chill my very heart

No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him.

My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire

Whoever touches her feels a chill.

His hands were cold and damp and his limbs ached with chill.

Rosasharn got a chill.

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Expressions using "chill": cast a chill over ♦ cast a chill upon ♦ catch a chill ♦ Chill and fever ♦ chill mark ♦ chill of fear ♦ chill off ♦ chill out ♦ chill out! ♦ chill to the marrow ♦ Cold chill ♦ Dumb chill ♦ feverish chill ♦ get a chill ♦ internal chill ♦ object CHILL ♦ primary chill ♦ suffering from a chill ♦ take the chill of ♦ take the chill off. Additional references.

Beginning with "chill": chill-filtering, chill-out.

Ending with "chill": wind-chill.

Albanian

të ftohtë therës, të dridhura (labefaction), ngrij (congeal, deepfreeze, feel cold, freeze, glaciate, grow numb, ice, refrigerate, solidify, stiffen, turn blue), mbërdhij (be chilled), i brengosur (dejected, depressed, despondent, doleful, grievous, sad, sorry, unhappy), i akullt (cold-hearted, cutting, freezing, frigid, frozen, gelid, glacial, ice, icy), i acartë (bleak, crisp, sharp), ftohtësi (aloofness, coldness, coolness, distance, frost, insensitivity, offishness), ftohem (be cold, catch cool, cool down, freeze, get cool), ftoh (cool, gelation, grow cool, quench, refrigerate, switch off), ethe (fever, fire, shake, temperature), drithërimë (thrill, trembling, tremor), brengos (damp, deject, depress, grieve, sadden), armiqësor (adverse, antagonistic, antisocial, at sword's points, chilly, enemy, enemy's, forbidding, hostile, inimical, opponent, subversive, unfriendly), armiqësi (animosity, animus, antagonism, bellicosity, enmity, feud, grudge, prejudice). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مرتجف بردا, ‏قسى (braze, harden, stiffen, tighten, toughen), ‏قشعريرة (ague, gooseflesh, shake, shiver, shudder, tremble), ‏تصيبه قشعريرة, ‏جفوة, ‏إحباط (defeat, frustration, mare's nest), ‏إرتجف (dither, jar, palpitate, quail, quake, quaver, quiver, shake, shiver, shudder, tremble), ‏ثبط (damp, dampen, demoralize, frustrate, inhibit, inhibition, repel), ‏شعور مثبط, ‏برد (cold, coldness, freshen, hail, quench, rasp, refrigerate). (various references)

Basque

katarro. (various references)

Bulgarian 

охлаждам (condense, cool, damp, dash, freeze, ice, nip, quench, refrigerate), изстудявам (cool down, ice), потресвам (appal, appall, shake, stun), премръзнал (famished, perished), простуда (cold), закален чрез охлаждане, настинка (cold), измразявам (winter-kill), охладяване (cooling off), студенина (bleakness, coldness, dryness, frost, ice, impassivity, wintriness), тресе ме, тръпки (creeps, rigor, shivers, thrill), хлад (cool, tepidity), хладина (coldness, cool, coolness, tepidity), хладен (chilly, cold, cool, crisp, impersonal, inapproachable, lukewarm, passionless, tepid, unemotional, unmoved, wintry), студ (cold, iciness, wintriness), неприятно студен. (various references)

Chinese 

冷颤 (Chilly). (various references)

Czech

chladit (cool, refrigerate), chlad (cold, coldness, cool, coolness), vychladit (cool, cool down, ice), smutek (gloom, grief, misery, mourning, sables, sadness, unhappiness), ochlazeni, nastuzení, mrazení (refrigeration, rigor). (various references)

Danish

koele (cool), hvidstoerkning (internal chill). (various references)

Dutch

witte stolling (internal chill), koelen (refrigerate), gietijzeren oplegsteun. (various references)

Farsi 

مایه دلسردی , مایوس , چایمان , ناامید (Gray), سرما (Cold), سردکردن (Refrigerate), خنکی (Vapidity), خنک شدن (Fresh, Keel). (various references)

Finnish

jäähdyttää (cool, refrigerate). (various references)

French

coup de froid, trempe (internal chill), refroidissement (chilling), refroidir, réfrigérer, glacial, glacer, geler, froid (chilly), frissonner, frisson, donner froid à, être sévère. (various references)

German

Kühle (chilliness, coldness, cool, coolness), Kältegefühl (sensation of cold), Kälte (bleakness, chilliness, chillness, cold, cold spell, coldness, frigidity, frostiness, iciness), Frostgefühl. (various references)

Greek 

καταψύχω (freeze). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקרר (cool), להצן, לצנן (cool), קור (cold, coolness, frigidity), צנה (cold). (various references)

Hungarian

megfázás (colds, common cold), hideg (algid, bleak, chilling, chilly, cold, frigid, frosty, icy, metallic, steely, stony, to be frozen to the marrow). (various references)

Indonesian

udara dingin (low), dingin (bleak, brisk, cold). (various references)

Italian

solidificazione bianca (internal chill), refrigerare (cool, cool down, refrigerate), raffreddarsi (become colder, catch a cold, get, get cold), raffreddare (become cold, catch a cold, cool, cool down, cool off, die down, make cold, refrigerate), gelo (cold, freezing, freezing cold, frost, ice), gelido (frosty, gelid, icy), freddo (bleak, chilliness, chilly, cold, cold-hearted, coldness, cool, nonchalant, raw, stiff, winterly, wintry), agghiacciare (Curdle, freeze). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

悪寒　 (ague, shakes), 悪寒 (ague, shakes), 冷気 (cold, cold air, cold wave, cold weather), 寒気　. (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おかん (ague, feeling feverish and chilly, ill or unhappy feeling, picture book, shakes), れいき (aura, cold, cold air, cold wave, cold weather, established rule, excitation, Reiki). (various references)

Korean 

오한. (various references)

Manx

fynnyraght (coolness), feayraghey (alienation, cool, refrigerate, refrigeration), feayght (cold, exposure). (various references)

Occitan

refregida (crèba). (various references)

Pig Latin

illchay.(various references)

Portuguese

calafrio (cold, rigor, shiver, thrill), gélido (frosty, frozen, gelid), abstrato (absent, absent-minded, abstract, distrait), arrepio (creeps, dither, gooseflesh, goose-skin, horripilation, rigor, shiver, shudder, thrill), depressão (basin, cavity, crater, damp, dejection, doldrums, goneness, low-spiritedness, megrims, oppression, prostration, sag, valley), deprimir (deject, depress, hip, hump, unman), desânimo (damp, dejection, depression, despond, despondency, discouragement, dismay, megrims, prostration, the mopes), desanimar (collapse, damp, deject, depress, despair, despond, discount, discourage, dishearten, dismay, dispirit, drench, flatten, quail, throw cold water on, unman, unnerve), esfriar (cool, ice), frieza (bleakness, coldness, coolness, frigidity, nonchalance, phlegm, stand-off), abatimento (abatement, damp, dejection, depression, despondency, discount, doldrums, drawback, droop, enervation, heaviness, languor, mope, prostration, rebate, reduction, sag, settlement, weekness), friorento (chilly), temperar metal, gelado (bleak, free-for-all, frigid, frosty, frozen, gelid, ice-cold, icy, nipping, winterly, wintry), gelar (deepfreeze, freeze, frost, ice, refrigerate, to freeze), glacial (freezing, frigid, frosty, gelid, glacial, icy, winterly, wintry), indiferente (aloof, callous, chilly, chippy, cool, devil-may-care, freezing, frigid, frosty, immaterial, impassible, incurious, indifferent, insensitive, laodicean, listless, lukewarm, negligent, nonchalant, passive, pococurante, reckless, regardless, supine, unconcern, unconcerned, uninterested, unresponsive), insensível (blind, callous, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, coldlivered, flint-hearted, flinty, frozen, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible, irresponsive, keen, laodicean, lukewarm, marble, seared, stony, unfeeling, unresponsive, unsusceptible, unsympathetic), refrigerar (cool, freeze, freshen, rub up), resfriado (cold), resfriar (quench), sensação de frio (sensation of cold), têmpera (anneal, hardening, internal chill, quenching, soaking, steeping, temper, tempering, toughening), frio (bleak, chilly, clammy, cold, cold-hearted, coldlivered, coldness, devil-may-care, dispassionate, edge, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frost, iceness, ilium, impassive, lifeless, nipping, nonchalant, parky, passionless, phlegmatic, plodder, repulsive, reserved, soulless, tepid, unresponsive, unsympathetic, winterly, wintry). (various references)

Romanian

cãli (anneal, attemper, caseharden, harden, indurate, steel, strengthen, temper), se rãci (catch cold, cool, ice), rezervã (aloofness, budget, condition, deposit, distance, exception, hoard, offishness, qualification, refill, reservation, reserve, restraint, retention, side-room, stand by, standoffishness, stipulation, stock, store, substitute, supply), rece (apathetically, bleak, chilly, cold, cold blooded, cold-hearted, coldly, cool, crisp, damp, dank, distant, freezingly, frigid, frosty, glacial, hard-hearted, icily, icy, immovable, impersonal, inhuman, nippy, reserved, snappy, stale, stiff, stony, wintery, wintry), rãcoare (cold, cool, coolness, freshness, jug, limbo, quod, shade, shiver, shudder), rãci (catch a chill, catch cold, cool, damp, quench, refrigerate), rãcealã (ague, chilliness, cold, coldness, cool, coolness, distance, freshness, frigidity, frost, go by, reserve, rheum), neprietenos (glacial, hostile, manner, unfriendly), indiferent (all one, all the same, anywhere, apathetic, apathetical, careless, cool, dull, impassive, indifferent, indifferently, inhuman, insensible, insensitive, lackadaisical, languid, listless, nonchalant, numb, perfunctory, phlegmatic, pococurante, reckless, remiss, slack, slow, sluggish, stolid, unconcerned, unimportant, unmoved), glacial (chilly, cold, damp, frigid, frigidly, frosty, gelid, glacial, icily, icy), friguros (bleak, chilly, cold, Parky), frig (bleak, chilly, cold, coldness, cool, coolness, frigidity, frost), descuraja (beat down, bring low, cast down, damp, dash, daunt, deject, depress, deter, discourage, dishearten, dismay, dispirit, face down, flatten, mope, scare, unnerve), înfrigura. (various references)

Russian 

охлаждать (cool, cool down, quench, refrigerate), изложница (casting form), прохладность, прохладный (breezy, cool, tepid), простуда (catarrh, cold, common cold), лихорадочный озноб (ague), закаливать (harden, quench), закаленный (case-hardened, hard-tempered, salted, seasoned, weather beaten), закалка (quenching), знобить (shiver), неприятно холодный, дрожь (didder, dither, quake, quiver, shiver, thrill, tremble, trembling, tremor, tremors, tremulously, tremulousness, trepidation), озябание (cold), студить (cool), охлаждать холод;простуда, охлаждаться (cool, cool down), охлаждение (alienation of affections, cooling, refrigeration), кокиль (chill mould), форма (build, figure, form, forma, format, gestalt, make, mode, mould, pattern, shape, state, type-form, uniform), холод (cold, coldness), холодеть, холодная погода (cold snap), холодность (cold, coldness, frigidity, stoniness), холодный (algid, bleak, cold, cold look, cool, dry, frigid, unheated), озноб (ague, dither, rigor). (various references)

Scottish

meilich (become chill with cold). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prohladiti, ohladiti (cool down, turn off), jeza (creeps, horror, shiver, shudder), hladiti se (cool), hladan (algid, chilled, cold, cool, passionless, raw), drhtavica (shaking, shivering, trembling). (various references)

Spanish

solidificación blanca (internal chill), resfriarse (catch a cold), refrigerar (refrigerate), refriado, helar (freeze, freeze up, ice, nip), gelidez (frostiness), frío (bleak, chilly, cold, cool, distant, frigid, frosted, frosting, frosty, Parky, sharp, spent, stiff, uncommunicative), escalofri/o, escalofrío (ague, feverish chill, shiver, shudder), enfriarse (catch cold, cool down, fall away, fall off, get cold), enfriar (cool, cool down, damp, dampen, dull, get cold, ice, quench), enfriamiento (cooling, quenching). (various references)

Swedish

kyla (cold, coldness, frigidity, frost, nip, refrigerate), kylig (chilly, coldish, cool, frigid, frosty, glacial, Parky, wintry). (various references)

Thai

ใจเย็นๆ (take a chill pill). (various references)

Turkish

kırmak (bear down, blight, breach, break, break down, bust, chop, crack, cut, dampen, discount, fracture, freeze, give offence, give offense, hurt, lacerate, offend, outrage, pique, put off, put smb.'s nose out of joint, quench, reduce, refract, Rive, ruffle smb.'s feelings, rupture, set up, shatter, skip, snap, snap off, split, stave in, sting, touch, vanquish), üşümek (be cold, feel chilly, feel cold), üşütücü (chilling), üşütmek (be ill with a cold, catch a chill), ürperme (creep, flicker, rigor, rigour, the shivers, tremble, tremor, trepidation), ürpermek (creep, feel chilly, shiver, shudder, tremble, tremble all over), buz gibi (arctic, freezing, frigid, gelid, icily, icy, nippy, sour, very cold, wintry), üşüme, donmak (bind, congeal, freeze, perish), titreme (dither, flicker, judder, pulsation, quake, quaking, quiver, rigor, rigour, shake, shaking, shimmy, shiver, shivering, shudder, the shivers, thrill, tremble, trembling, tremor, trepidation, vibration), kaçırmak (abduct, blow, exude, flush, give off, hijack, kidnap, ladder, let escape, let slip, lose, make off with, Miss, ooze, pass up, put off, rape, ravish, shuffle, slip, snatch, spirit away, spoil, whisk), serinlik (cool, coolness, fresh, freshness), soğuk (aloof, angular, apathetic, apathetical, bleak, calm, chilling, chilly, cold, cool, cryo-, distant, freezing, frigid, frostiness, frosty, frozen, icily, inclement, inhospitable, marble, offish, Parky, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, remote, rigorous, saturnine, standoffish, starchy, stiff, stony, uncompanionable, unfriendly, unsympathetic, wintry), soğuk algınlığı, soğuk döküm kalıbı, soğukluk (apathy, bleakness, chilliness, cold, coldness, coolness, distance, frigidity, frost, frostiness, ill blood, inclemency, inhospitality, phlegm, standoff, stolidity, wintriness), dondurmak (congeal, deep freeze, freeze, ice, nip, numb, refrigerate). (various references)

Turkmen 

яoс (cold, fever). (various references)

Ukrainian

охолоджуватися (dead, refrigerate), прохолоний (chilly), простуда (cold, stuffing), байдужий (apathetic, apathetical, barren, cold, cold blooded, cold-hearted, cold-livered, disinterested, frigid, half hearted, impassible, indifferent, insensible, insentient, neutral, nonchalant, passionless, unaffected, unconcerned, uninterested, unmoved), бездушний (brute, callous, hardened, hard-hearted, hollow-hearted, inanimate, ossified, soulless), заморожувати (block, congeal, daze, deepfreeze, freeze, ice), засмучувати (afflict, aggravate, aggrieve, chagrin, discompose, dishearten, dispirit, grieve, oppress, rue, sadden, unsettle, upset), застуда (cold), непривітний (churlish, cold, cool, inclement, unaffable), нечулий (callous, hard boiled, nonchalant), озноб (rigor), дрижаки, охолоджувати (cool, refresh, refrigerate, sober), студений (glacial), видчувати озноб, холод (algidity, bleakness, cold, coldness, freeze, frost), холодний (arctic, bleak, chilly, cold, frigid, gelid, icy, nippy, offish), холодність (coldness, cool, frigidity, frost, offishness), холодок, холодіти, холонути (cool, ice, jellify), розчарувати, розхолоджувати, студити (cool), охолодження (cooling). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự giá lạnh sự lạnh lùng, sự ớn lạnh, lạnh lẽo (chilly, cold, frigid), lạnh (chilling, chilly, cold, nippy), giá lạnh cảm thấy lạnh, ớn lạnh lạnh lùng. (various references)

Welsh

oeri (cool), oer (bleak, chilly, cold, frigid, sad). (various references)

frigidus, frigore, frigoribus, frigoris, gelu. (various references)

ciele. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "chill": chilled, chiller, chillers, chillest, chilli, chillier, chillies, chilliest, chillily, chilliness, chillinesses, chilling, chillingly, chillness, chillnesses, chills, chillum, chillums, chilly. (additional references)

Words ending with "chill": overchill, prechill, windchill. (additional references)

Words containing "chill": achillea, achilleas, chinchilla, chinchillas, overchilled, overchilling, overchills, prechilled, prechilling, prechills, rachilla, rachillae, schiller, schillers, schilling, schillings, windchills. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Chill" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Achil, Cehill, Chaillu, chal, chall, challa, challe, Chalo, cheal, cheil, chel, che'l, Chelalo, chella, chello, chelo, chiel, chil, chilla, chille, chilm, chilt, chiol, chl, chol, chrill, chull, Crill, Csil, Schil, whill. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: hill, lich.

-2 letters: chi, hic, ich, ill.

-3 letters: hi, li.

+1 letter: chilli, chills, chilly.

+2 letters: challie, challis, childly, chilled, chiller, chillum, helical, hillock, lichtly, lochial, phallic, thallic.

+3 letters: achillea, caliphal, challies, chenille, chillers, chillest, chillier, chillies, chillily, chilling, chillums, heliacal, hillocks, hillocky, oilcloth, prechill, rachilla, schiller.

+4 letters: achilleas, alcoholic, blotchily, bullfinch, challises, chenilles, chilblain, childless, childlier, childlike, chilliest, chillness, chiselled, chiseller, coltishly, cultishly, echolalia, echolalic, ethically, guilloche, halocline, helically, hillcrest, laccolith, leechlike, loincloth, lyophilic, ohmically, oilcloths, overchill, prechills, rachillae, sailcloth, schillers, schilling, schlemiel, slouchily, windchill.