(chills, chilling, chilled)
1.
When you chill something or when it chills, you lower its temperature so that it becomes colder but does not freeze.
Chill the fruit salad until serving time...
These doughs can be rolled out while you wait for the pastry to chill.
...a glass of chilled champagne.
? warm up
VERB: V n, V, V-ed
2.
When cold weather or something cold chills a person or a place, it makes that person or that place feel very cold.
An exposed garden may be chilled by cold winds...
Wade placed his chilled hands on the radiator and warmed them...
The boulder sheltered them from the chilling wind.
VERB: V n, V-ed, V-ing
3.
If something sends a chill through you, it gives you a sudden feeling of fear or anxiety.
The violence used against the students sent a chill through Indonesia...
He smiled, an odd, dreamy smile that sent chills up my back.
= shiver
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4.
A chill is a mild illness which can give you a slight fever and headache.
He caught a chill while performing at a rain-soaked open-air venue.
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5.
Chill weather is cold and unpleasant.
...chill winds, rain and choppy seas.
ADJ: ADJ n
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Chill is also a noun.
...the cold chill of the night.
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