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CHILL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coldness due to a cold environment
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("chill" is a kind of...):
cold; coldness; frigidity; frigidness; low temperature (the absence of heat)
Derivation:
chill (loose heat)
chill (make cool or cooler)
chilly (appreciably or disagreeably cold)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An almost pleasurable sensation of fright
Example:
a frisson of surprise shot through him
Synonyms:
chill; frisson; quiver; shiver; shudder; thrill; tingle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("chill" is a kind of...):
fear; fearfulness; fright (an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight))
Sense 3
Meaning:
A sudden numbing dread
Synonyms:
chill; pall
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("chill" is a kind of...):
apprehension; apprehensiveness; dread (fearful expectation or anticipation)
Derivation:
chill (depress or discourage)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
Synonyms:
chill; shivering
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("chill" is a kind of...):
symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they chill ... he / she / it chills
Past simple: chilled
Past participle: chilled
-ing form: chilling
Sense 1
Meaning:
Loose heat
Example:
The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "chill" is one way to...):
change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sentence example:
The water chills
Derivation:
chill (coldness due to a cold environment)
chilling (the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Make cool or cooler
Example:
Chill the food
Synonyms:
chill; cool; cool down
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "chill" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Cause:
chill; cool; cool down (loose heat)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "chill"):
quench (cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid)
ice (put ice on or put on ice)
refrigerate (cool or chill in or as if in a refrigerator)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
They chill the water
Derivation:
chill (coldness due to a cold environment)
chilling (the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Depress or discourage
Example:
The news of the city's surrender chilled the soldiers
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "chill" is one way to...):
cast down; deject; demoralise; demoralize; depress; dismay; dispirit; get down (lower someone's spirits; make downhearted)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
The bad news will chill him
Derivation:
chill (a sudden numbing dread)
Context examples:
A chill of fear had come over me, as I thought that his absence might mean that some blow had fallen during the night.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You've already slightly chilled your lungs. Besides, he is a physician and knows. He would never permit it.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not think that any burglar could have done.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Symptoms of gastroenteritis include diarrhea, abdominal pain, vomiting, headache, fever and chills.
(Gastroenteritis, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
Symptoms of swine flu in people are similar to the symptoms of regular human flu and include fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue.
(H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
It was still quite early, and the coldest morning that I think I ever was abroad in—a chill that pierced into the marrow.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The sky became clouded, but the air was pure, although chilled by the northeast breeze that was then rising.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
In septicemic plague, bacteria multiply in the blood. It causes fever, chills, shock, and bleeding under the skin or other organs.
(Plague, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
Patients usually present with abdominal pain and tenderness, fever, chills, and nausea and vomiting.
(Peritonitis, NCI Thesaurus)
The telling of this grim story had cast a chill upon all of us.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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