| 单词 | chill |
| 释义 | chill (once / 199 pages) 1nv 2v 3n A sharp burst of cold air or icy temperatures is a chill. The chill of a January day in New England might make you dream of moving to New Mexico. You'll feel a chill when someone opens a window in the winter, or notice a chill in the air on a cool day in September. Another kind of chill makes you shiver, but it's caused by illness and fever rather than a cold breeze: "Symptoms of the flu include chills and headache." A cold attitude is also a chill, as when a chill in the room makes you realize your friends are angry at each other. WORD FAMILYchill: chilled, chiller, chilling, chills, chilly+/chiller: chillers/chilling: chillingly/chilly: chillier, chilliest, chillily, chilliness, chillys USAGE EXAMPLES“Speaking as a mom, I felt a chill down my spine,” she said referring to recent political broadcast. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) I shuddered at the same photos that chilled the victims’ families. New York Times(Jan 12, 2012) The most common symptoms are fever, cough, sore throat, headache, chills and body aches. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1 1n coldness due to a cold environment Syn|Hyper gelidity, iciness cold, coldness, frigidity, frigidness, low temperature the absence of heat 2n a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever Syn|Hyper shivering symptom (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease 3v make cool or cooler Chill the food Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper cool, cool down heat, heat up make hot or hotter quench cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid iceput ice on or put on ice refrigeratecool or chill in or as if in a refrigerator alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 4v loose heat 2Syn|Ant|Hyper cool, cool down heat, heat up, hot up gain heat or get hot change state, turn undergo a transformation or a change of position or action v depress or discourage 3The news of the city's surrender chilled the soldiers Hyper cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down lower someone's spirits; make downhearted 1n a sudden numbing dread Syn|Hyper pall apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread fearful expectation or anticipation 2n an almost pleasurable sensation of fright Syn|Hyper frisson, quiver, shiver, shudder, thrill, tingle fear, fearfulness, fright an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight) |
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