chillverb [ I or T ]
uk/tʃɪl/us/tʃɪl/to (cause to) become cold but not freeze:
I've put the beer in the fridge to chill.
Chill the wine before serving.
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Cold
- be (as) cold as ice idiom
- biting
- bitter
- bitterly
- bone-chilling
- cooling
- freeze
- freezing
- frigid
- frigid zone
- frostbite
- ice-cold
- icy
- nip
- occluded front
- perished
- raw
- stone-cold
- windchill
- wintry
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Idiom(s)
chill sb to the bone/marrow
Phrasal verb(s)
chill out
chillnoun
uk/tʃɪl/us/tʃɪl/chill noun (COLD)
C2 [ S ] a feeling of cold:
There was a chill in the air this morning.
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Cold
- be (as) cold as ice idiom
- biting
- bitter
- bitterly
- bone-chilling
- cooling
- freeze
- freezing
- frigid
- frigid zone
- frostbite
- ice-cold
- icy
- nip
- occluded front
- perished
- raw
- stone-cold
- windchill
- wintry
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chill noun (ILLNESS)
[ C ] a slight fever:
Don't go out with wet hair, you might catch a chill.
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Colds & flu
- bunged up
- chesty
- cold
- congested
- coughing fit
- flu
- frog
- hacking cough
- have a frog in your throat idiom
- head cold
- influenza
- runny
- sneeze
- sniff
- sniffle
- snuffle
- stuffed up
- swine flu
- the common cold
- tickle
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chill noun (BAD FEELING)
C2 [ S ] a sudden unpleasant feeling, especially of fear:
I suddenly realized, with a chill of apprehension, the danger ahead.
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Fear & phobias
- acrophobia
- aerophobia
- agoraphobic
- alarm
- arachnophobia
- bogey
- claustrophobia
- cold sweat
- fearful
- fright
- homophobia
- horror
- hydrophobia
- hydrophobic
- mortal
- panic
- panic stations
- phobia
- terror
- xenophobe
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Idiom(s)
send chills down/up sb's spine
take the chill off sth
chilladjective
uk/tʃɪl/us/tʃɪl/literarychill adjective (COLD)
chilly (= cold)
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Cold
- be (as) cold as ice idiom
- biting
- bitter
- bitterly
- bone-chilling
- cooling
- freeze
- freezing
- frigid
- frigid zone
- frostbite
- ice-cold
- icy
- nip
- occluded front
- perished
- raw
- stone-cold
- windchill
- wintry
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chill adjective (RELAXED)
informal relaxed:
We're a lot more chill about this than our parents were.
The bar has a pretty chill vibe and the service is great.
Idiom(s)
the chill wind of sth