chill
寒冷的,寒冷,寒意,寒气
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Definitions
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- : coldness, especially a moderate but uncomfortably penetrating coldness: the chill of evening.
- : a sensation of cold, usually with shivering: She felt a slight chill from the open window.
- : a feeling of sudden fear, anxiety, or alarm.
- : sudden coldness of the body, as during the cold stage of an ague: fevers and chills.
- : a depressing influence or sensation: His presence cast a chill over everyone.
- : lack of warmth of feeling; unfriendliness; coolness.
- : Foundry. an inserted object or a surface in a mold capable of absorbing large amounts of heat, used to harden the surface of a casting or to increase its rate of solidification at a specific point.
- : bloom.
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- : moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly: a chill wind.
- : shivering with or affected by cold; chilly.
- : depressing or discouraging: chill prospects.
- : Slang. cool.
- : unduly formal; unfriendly; chilly: a chill reception.
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- : to become cold: The earth chills when the sun sets.
- : to be seized with a chill; shiver with cold or fear.
- : Foundry. to become hard on the surface by contact with a chill or chills.
- : Slang. to calm down; relax.
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- : to affect with cold; make chilly: The rain has chilled me to the bone.
- : to make cool: Chill the wine before serving.
- : to depress; discourage; deter: The news chilled his hopes.
- : Foundry. to harden the surface of by casting it in a mold having a chill or chills.
- : bloom.
- : Slang. to kill; murder.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
While there’s a lot of chatter around a possible surge in coronavirus cases come fall, economists note there may also be chilling headwinds for the labor market and small businesses in the next few months.
The other is a carbon tax, a term that often sends chills through free market advocates.
When chilled, a warmer system cooled off in less time than it took a cooler system to reach the same low temperature.
I’d known Jim since grade school, and he did try to chill out when I asked him to, but he simply couldn’t control himself.
Side effects to the coronavirus vaccine include pain at the injection site, fatigue, headache, muscle aches, chills and feeling feverish.
It was an attempt to combat a growing chill on free speech in Turkey while placing his newspaper at the center of the debate.
Alice wore a black nylon rain jacket that looked as if it was ill prepared to deal with the coming chill.
If you prefer them chewy in the middle and crisp outside, chill the balls of dough.
Standing in the chill breeze of autumn, I knew something had passed between us.
What he—and his friend holding the camera—heard in response was enough to chill them to the bone.
Presently he began to shiver so, with some sort of a chill, that I took off my coat and wrapped it round him.
From the day of that terrible chill in the snow-storm, she had never been quite well, Ramona thought.
Though she was warmly wrapped in a soft rug of silvery fur, a chill crept into her heart.
As she walked along the chill promenade she looked with discreet curiosity at every woman she met, to see her condition.
A chill, sinister feeling crept over me, but I kept my gaze fixed steadily in the same direction.