| 单词 | to chill one's blood |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto chill one's blood to chill the (also a person's) blood: to horrify or terrify (a person); to unnerve, unsettle; also to chill one's blood; cf. freeze v. 5c. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being horrible > horrify [verb (transitive)] agrisec1225 uga1250 freeze1398 curl1530 abhor1531 to chill the (also a person's) blood1637 horror1642 horrorize1820 horrify1822 behorror1857 to curl (a person's) hair1949 1637 T. Heywood Royall King v. sig. I2 It quakes my body, and quite chills my blood. 1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada i. iii. i. 26 This noyse may chill your Blood, but mine it warms: We have already past the Rubicon. 1758 Lloyd's Evening Post 4–6 Jan. 16/2 Many other cruelties which shocked me, and chilled my blood to hear. 1798 R. S. New Monk III. xi. 140 My heart beat high; my blood was chilled to ice. 1832 Times 20 Dec. 1/4 The idea chilled the blood with horror. 1894 A. Conan Doyle Round Red Lamp xii. 230 There was something in this sudden, uncontrollable shriek of horror which chilled his blood and pringled in his skin. 1921 C. A. Seltzer ‘Beau’ Rand xxxi. 265 She started back, rising to her feet, a presentiment of evil chilling her blood. 1998 J. Mills Robert Kennedy xiv. 196 The attorney general grabbed the phone and delivered a brusque ultimatum that chilled Barnett's blood. 2010 Observer (Nexis) 2 May 37 They want to chill the blood of voters with the allegedly calamitous consequences for Britain if the election does not produce a clear winner. < as lemmas |
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