Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel.
- 6adjective
Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.
- 7adjective
Affected by cold.
- 8adjective
Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception.
- 9adjective
Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.
- 10transitive verb
To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold.
- 11transitive verb
To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage.
- 12transitive 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.
- 13intransitive verb
To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.
- 14noun
coldness due to a cold environment
- 15noun
an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
"a frisson of surprise shot through him"
- 16noun
a sudden numbing dread
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- 17noun
a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
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- 18verb
loose heat
"The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm"
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- 19verb
make cool or cooler
"Chill the food"
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- 20verb
depress or discourage
"The news of the city's surrender chilled the soldiers"
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