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English noun: chill | |||
| 1. | chill (attribute) coldness due to a cold environment | ||
| Synonyms | gelidity, iciness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | cold, coldness, frigidity, frigidness, low temperature | ||
| 2. | chill (feeling) an almost pleasurable sensation of fright | ||
| Samples | A frisson of surprise shot through him. | ||
| Synonyms | frisson, quiver, shiver, shudder, thrill, tingle | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | fear, fearfulness, fright | ||
| 3. | chill (state) a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever | ||
| Synonyms | shivering | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | symptom | ||
| 4. | chill (feeling) a sudden numbing dread | ||
| Synonyms | pall | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread | ||
English verb: chill | |||
| 1. | chill (emotion) depress or discourage | ||
| Samples | The news of the city's surrender chilled the soldiers. | ||
| Examples | The bad news will chill him | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down | ||
| 2. | chill (change) make cool or cooler | ||
| Samples | Chill the food. | ||
| Examples | They chill the water | ||
| Synonyms | cool, cool down | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | alter, change, modify | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | ice, quench, refrigerate | ||
| Cause | chill, cool, cool down | ||
| Antonyms | heat, heat up | ||
| 3. | chill (change) loose heat | ||
| Samples | The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm. | ||
| Examples | The water chills | ||
| Synonyms | cool, cool down | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | change state, turn | ||
| Antonyms | heat up, hot up, heat | ||
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