Chilling

Full definition of chilling

Adjective

1. Becoming cold.
• 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber 2007, p. 22:As they reached the street the ‘Duchess’ caught a swirling hem of lace about her chilling ankles.
2. Causing cold.
3. Causing mild fear.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.

Verb

1. Present participle of chill

Derived terms

• bone-chilling

Noun

1. The act by which something is chilled.
• 2004, Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus (page 73)To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires ...