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A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.

Example: There was a chill in the air.

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.

Example: Close the window or you'll catch a chill.   I felt a chill when the wind picked up.

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.

Example: Despite the heat, he felt a chill as he entered the crime scene.   The actor's eerie portrayal sent chills through the audience.   His menacing presence cast a chill over everyone.

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.

To lower the temperature of something; to cool

Example: Chill before serving.

To become cold

Example: In the wind he chilled quickly.

To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling

To become hard by rapid cooling

Moderately cold or chilly.

Example: A chill wind was blowing down the street.

Unwelcoming; not cordial.

Example: Arriving late at the wedding, we were met with a chill reception.

Calm, relaxed, easygoing.

Example: Paint-your-own ceramics studios are a chill way to express yourself while learning more about your date's right brain.

"Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.

Example: That new movie was chill, man.