to chill

Definition of to chill in English English dictionary: 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: close the window or you'll catch a chill
I felt a chill when the wind picked up.; To smoke marijuana
On Friday night do you wanna chill?.; To become hard by rapid cooling; To lower the temperature of something; to cool
Chill before serving.; A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness
There was a chill in the air.; To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling; To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group. Also chill out
Hey, we should chill this weekend.; Moderately cold or chilly
A chill wind was blowing down the street.; 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
His menacing presence cast a chill over everyone.; Calm, relaxed, easygoing. See also: '''chill out
Paint-your-own ceramics studios are a chill way to express yourself while learning more about your date's right brain.; To become cold
In the wind he chilled quickly.; "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group
That new movie was chill, man.; To relax, lay back. Also chill out
The new gym teacher really has to chill or he's gonna blow a gasket.; {n} moderate cold, or with dampness and shivering, the fit which precedes the fever; {a} moderately cold, cold with shivering, forbidding, dull, dejected; {v} to make cold, deject, depress, blast; Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc; {i} cold, frost; shiver, shudder; To place food in refrigerator until cold but not frozen; A chill is a mild illness which can give you a slight fever and headache. He caught a chill while performing at a rain-soaked open-air venue; A moderate but penetrating sense of cold; Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw; A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering; To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold; a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever; loose heat; "The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm"; To cool food in the refrigerator without freezing; Metal, graphite or carbon blocks that are incorporated into the mold or core to locally increase the rate of heat removal during solidification and reduce shrinkage defects; To reduce temperature by putting in refrigerator or over ice; Chill weather is cold and unpleasant. chill winds, rain and choppy seas. Chill is also a noun. the cold chill of the night; To produce, by sudden cooling, a change of crystallization at or near the surface of, so as to increase the hardness; said of cast iron; make cool or cooler; "Chill the food"; Rapid cooling of thin section; causes a very hard and brittle condition; detrimental to machining; A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly; {f} cool, make cold; become cold; chill out, relax (Slang); Calm, relaxed; coldness due to a cold environment; coldness due to a cold environment a sudden numbing dread a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever depress or discourage; "The news of the city's surrender chilled the soldiers"; Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception; To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others; When you chill something or when it chills, you lower its temperature so that it becomes colder but does not freeze. Chill the fruit salad until serving time These doughs can be rolled out while you wait for the pastry to chill. a glass of chilled champagne. warm up; To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage; Cool, Hip (Adj) Keenly aware of or knowledgeable about the latest trends or developments, Very fashionable or stylish; If something sends a chill through you, it gives you a sudden feeling of fear or anxiety. The violence used against the students sent a chill through Indonesia He smiled, an odd, dreamy smile that sent chills up my back. = shiver; Affected by cold; depress or discourage; "The news of the city's surrender chilled the soldiers"; A sudden numbing fear or dread; To refrigerate something until cold; uncomfortably cool; "a chill wind"; "chilly weather; An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it; The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel; a sudden numbing dread; 3/98Block-structured telecomm application language from late 1970s; A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever; abbr CCITT High Level Language; an almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of surprise shot through him"; When cold weather or something cold chills a person or a place, it makes that person or that place feel very cold. An exposed garden may be chilled by cold winds Wade placed his chilled hands on the radiator and warmed them The boulder sheltered them from the chilling wind; uncomfortably cool; "a chill wind"; "chilly weather"; {s} cool, cold; To relax, lay back