adj
Meaning 1
Becoming cold.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
chilling
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Pronunciation
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/ˈt͡ʃɪlɪŋ/
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adj
Meaning 2
Causing cold.
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adj
Meaning 3
Causing mild fear.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- It was a chilling story, but the children enjoyed it.
- 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/ 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.
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noun
Meaning 4
The act by which something is chilled.
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verb
Meaning 5
present participle and gerund of chill
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Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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adjective satellite
Meaning 6
provoking fear terror
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a scary movie
- the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: scarey, scary, shivery, shuddery
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cooling, temperature reduction
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: temperature change
Narrower terms: freeze, freezing, heat dissipation, refrigeration, infrigidation
History
Etymology
From Middle English chilling, chelling, chyllinge, chillynge, chillande, equivalent to chill + -ing.
From Middle English chilling, chillyng, chyllynge, equivalent to chill + -ing.
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: viilenevä — becoming cold
- Finnish: jäähtyvä — becoming cold
- Finnish: paleleva — becoming cold
- Catalan: refrescant — causing cold
- Finnish: viilentävä — causing cold
- Finnish: jäähdyttävä — causing cold
- Swedish: kylning — causing cold
- Arabic: مرعبه — causing mild fear
- Arabic: مخيف — causing mild fear
- Arabic: زاحف — causing mild fear
- Catalan: esgarrifós — causing mild fear
- Catalan: glaçador — causing mild fear
- Danish: skræmmende — causing mild fear
- Danish: uhyggelig — causing mild fear
- Finnish: pelottava — causing mild fear
- French: effrayant — causing mild fear
- German: gruselig — causing mild fear
- German: unheimlich — causing mild fear
- German: grauenerregend — causing mild fear
- Italian: spaventoso — causing mild fear
- Portuguese: aterrorizante — causing mild fear
- Spanish: escalofriante — causing mild fear
- Spanish: espeluznante — causing mild fear
- Swedish: läskigt — causing mild fear