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Definition chill

Etymology 1

From Middle English chil, chile, from Old English ?yle, ?iele, ?ele (“cold; coldness”), from Proto-Germanic *kaliz. Merged with Middle English chele, from Old English ??le (“cold; coldness”), from Proto-Germanic *k?liz, *k?l?? (“coolness; coldness”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to be cold”). Related to German Low German Köle, German Kühle, Danish køle, Swedish kyla, Icelandic kylur. Compare also Dutch kil (“chilly; frosty; frigid”). See also cool, cold.

Noun

chill (countable and uncountable, plural chills)

1. A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
2. A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
3. An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
4. An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
5. The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
6. A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
7. Calmness; equanimity.
8. A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.

Adjective

chill (comparative more chill, superlative most chill)

1. Moderately cold or chilly.
2. Unwelcoming; not cordial.
3. (slang) Calm, relaxed, easygoing.
4. (slang) "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
5. (slang) Okay, not a problem.

Verb

chill (third-person singular simple present chills, present participle chilling, simple past and past participle chilled)

1. (transitive) to lower the temperature of something; to cool
2. (intransitive) to become cold
3. (transitive, metallurgy) to harden a metal surface by sudden cooling
4. (intransitive, metallurgy) to become hard by rapid cooling
5. (intransitive, slang) to relax, lie back
6. (intransitive, slang) to "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group. Also chill out.
7. (intransitive, slang) to smoke marijuana
8. (transitive) to discourage, depress

Etymology 2

From ch- +‎ will, from ich + will.

Contraction

chill

1. (West Country, obsolete) I will

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