English

Adjective

chilling ‎(comparative more chilling, superlative most chilling)

1. Becoming cold.
   • 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber 2007, p. 22:

     As they reached the street the ‘Duchess’ caught a swirling hem of lace about her chilling ankles.

2. Causing cold.
3. Causing mild fear.

   It was a chilling story, but the children enjoyed it

   • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games

     Displaying a sturdy professionalism throughout that stops just short of artistry, director Gary Ross, who co-scripted with Collins and Billy Ray, does his strongest work in the early scenes, which set up the stakes with chilling efficiency.

Translations

Verb

chilling

1. present participle of chill

Derived terms

• bone-chilling

Noun

chilling ‎(plural chillings)

1. The act by which something is chilled.
   • 2004, Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus (page 73)

     To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]