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The correct spelling is chill.
How to pronounce chill
/tʃɪl/
nounIPA: /tʃɪl/
Say it like: Chi-ll
The correct spelling is chill. A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness. For example: "There was a chill in the air."
Usage Examples
“There was a chill in the air.”
“Close the window or you'll catch a chill. I felt a chill when the wind picked up.”
“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.”
Meanings
noun
- 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.
verb
- 1.To lower the temperature of something; to cool
- 2.To become cold
- 3.To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling
- 4.To become hard by rapid cooling
- 5.To relax, lie back
adjective
- 1.Moderately cold or chilly.
- 2.Unwelcoming; not cordial.
- 3.Calm, relaxed, easygoing.
- 4."Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
- 5.Okay, not a problem.
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