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单词 blood-chilling
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blood-chilling
blood-chilling adj. (hyperbolically) such as to make the blood run cold; terrifying, horrifying; (later also in weakened use, esp. humorously) awful, dismal; cf. to make the blood run cold at Phrases 1i, chill v. Additions, spine-chilling adj. and n. at spine n.1 Compounds 2.
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1632 J. Vicars tr. Virgil XII Aeneids iii. 69 Bloud-chilling feare doth us surprise.
1771 L. Lewis Serm. Preach'd at New Meeting House 12 The horrid, blood-chilling solemnities of a day prefix'd—the dreadful cruel pomp of an ignominious tormenting execution.
1825 Sandusky (Ohio) Clarion 10 Dec. Of the horrible and blood-chilling spectacle which it exhibited, we are permitted only to say that on her body and neck were found eleven wounds.
1885 Overland Monthly July 99/2 Vampires, were-wolves, all the blood-chilling horrors..might be about.
1933 S. Walker Night Club Era 320 An evening with Frank E. Campbell, the undertaker, at Jansen's old place, and his straight-faced, blood-chilling jocosity.
2004 Q Sept. 144/3 Despite the blood-chilling news that her set includes a cover of John Lennon's Imagine,..[the] tour has long since sold out.
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