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Definition of "chilling" []

  • Becoming cold. (adjective)
  • Causing mild fear. (adjective)
  • Present participle of chill. (verb)

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Use "chilling" in a sentence
  • "DNA finds out how the city is giving the term chilling out new meaning."
  • "Prosecutors charged Rajib Karim, a Bangladeshi national who arrived in the U.K. in late 2006, with what they called a "chilling plan" to use his job at the airline to blow up a passenger plane."
  • "But looking back through his notes after Myers 'indictment, Murray picked up what he calls a chilling passage about the professor's administration for notorious Soviet double agents Kim Philby, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess."