| 单词 | bone-chilling |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbone-chilling bone-chilling adj. (a) (esp. of weather) that makes a person extremely cold; that chills to the bones; (b) figurative extremely frightening; terrifying, deeply chilling (cf. spine-chilling adj. and n. at spine n.1 Compounds 2). ΚΠ 1861 C. Dickens in All Year Round 2 Feb. 402/2 This last cold bone-chilling month of December. 1932 Evening Gaz. & Republican (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 1 Mar. 6/1 Soviet Russia, by mobilizing her troops and strengthening her defenses in Siberia, has given Japan a bone-chilling scare. 1956 Manch. Guardian 7 Jan. 4/7 I left the Gare de Lyon in a steady, bone-chilling downpour. 1977 Vogue Apr. 52/1 The Sentinel is bone-chilling, effectively horrifying nonsense about a haunted house that serves as the gateway to Hell. 2005 Uncut June 162/1 Oppressive heat, bone-chilling cold and tornado-spawning thunderstorms are all distinct possibilities. 2010 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 10 June 72/1 (advt.) Alexandros Papadiamantis's astonishing and bone-chilling tale of crime and punishment. < as lemmas |
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