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Definition of Chill

1. Verb. Depress or discourage. "The bad news will chill him"; "The news of the city's surrender chilled the soldiers"

2. Noun. Coldness due to a cold environment.

3. Verb. Make cool or cooler. "They chill the water "; "Chill the food"

4. Noun. An almost pleasurable sensation of fright. "A frisson of surprise shot through him"

5. Verb. Loose heat. "The water chills "; "The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm"

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

7. Noun. A sudden numbing dread.

Definition of Chill

1. n. A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.

2. a. Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.

3. v. t. To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold.

4. v. i. To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.

Definition of Chill

1. Abbreviation. (computing) an acronym for CCITT High Level Language ¹

2. Noun. A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness. ¹

3. Noun. A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: ''fevers and chills'', or susceptibility to illness: ''close the window or you'll catch a chill''. ¹

4. Noun. An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold. ¹

5. Adjective. Moderately cold or chilly. ¹

6. Adjective. (slang) Calm, relaxed, easygoing. ''See also'': chill out. ¹

7. Adjective. (slang) "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group. ¹

8. Verb. (transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool. ¹

9. Verb. (transitive metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling. ¹

10. Verb. (intransitive) To become cold. ¹

11. Verb. (intransitive metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling. ¹

12. Verb. (intransitive slang) To relax, lie back. ¹

13. Verb. (intransitive slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group. ''Also'' '''chill out'''. ¹

14. Verb. (intransitive slang) To smoke marijuana. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chill

1. cool [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: cool

Medical Definition of Chill

1. 1. A sensation of cold. 2. A feeling of cold with shivering and pallor, accompanied by an elevation of temperature in the interior of the body; usually a prodromal symptom of an infectious disease due to the invasion of the blood by toxins. Synonym: rigor. Origin: A.S. Cele, cold (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chill

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