chill🔊

A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.

A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: ''fevers and chills'', or susceptibility to illness.

An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.

An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.

The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.

A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.

Calmness; equanimity.

A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.

A chilling effect; an atmosphere of this.

Moderately cold or chilly.

Unwelcoming; not cordial.

(slang) Calm, relaxed, easygoing. +

(slang) "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group. +

(slang) Okay, not a problem.

To lower the temperature of something; to cool.

To become cold.

(metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.

(metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.

(Rest) (slang) To relax; to lie back; to take things easy.

(slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group. +

(slang) To smoke marijuana.

(figurative) To discourage, depress.

(obsolete) I will +