chill

IPA: tʃˈɪɫ

A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
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.
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.
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..
The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
Calmness; equanimity.
A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
A chilling effect; an atmosphere of this.
A surname.
(computing) Acronym of CCITT High Level Language. [(computing) a procedural programming language of the CCITT designed for use in telecommunication switches and still in use for legacy systems in some telecommunication companies and for signal box programming.]

(transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
(intransitive) To become cold.
(transitive, metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
(intransitive, metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
(intransitive, slang) To relax; to lie back.
(intransitive, slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.
(intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
(transitive, figurative) To discourage, depress.

Moderately cold or chilly.
Unwelcoming; not cordial.
(slang) Calm, relaxed, easygoing.
(slang) "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
(slang) Okay, not a problem.

Examples of "chill" in Sentences

The atmosphere chills perceptibly.
The air becomes thin and chilling.
Summer is moderate and the winter is chilling cold.
That will chill future misbehavior in the trial courts.
"Hardly," she said, her voice and her expression chill.
It is the threat of lawsuit that provides the libel chill.
Is the story that Cavalla appears in thrilling and chilling
Encouraging the use of the talk page is not a chilling effect.
A chilling scream convinces him that the monster is in the house.
Matthew dealt with the tragic incident with bone chilling coldness.
The possibilities of summer are gone, and the chill of winter is on the horizon.
That's not required in Maryland, Virginia or the District, yet a chill is already affecting local sales.