chill

chill is a 5-letter English word with 20 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 20 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.
2. noun. A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever.
3. noun. A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.
4. noun. An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
5. noun. The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel.
6. adjective. Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.
7. adjective. Affected by cold.
8. adjective. Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception.
9. adjective. Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.
10. transitive verb. To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold.
11. transitive verb. To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage.
12. transitive verb. To produce, by sudden cooling, a change of crystallization at or near the surface of, so as to increase the hardness; said of cast iron.
13. intransitive verb. To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.
14. noun. coldness due to a cold environment

    Synonyms: gelidity, iciness

15. noun. an almost pleasurable sensation of fright

    "a frisson of surprise shot through him"

    Synonyms: frisson, quiver, shiver, shudder, thrill, tingle

16. noun. a sudden numbing dread

    Synonyms: pall

17. noun. a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever

    Synonyms: shivering

18. verb. loose heat

    "The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm"

    Synonyms: cool

19. verb. make cool or cooler

    "Chill the food"

    Synonyms: cool

20. verb. depress or discourage

    "The news of the city's surrender chilled the soldiers"

Synonyms

gelidity, iciness, frisson, quiver, shiver, shudder, thrill, tingle, pall, shivering, cool

Common word forms

chills, chilled, chiller, chillest, chilling, chillness

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