chill

1 verb

1 (I, T) if you chill something such as food or drink or if it chills, it becomes very cold but does not freeze: Chill the champagne in a bucket of ice. | Serve the melon chilled.

2 (transitive usually passive) to make someone very cold: chilled to the bone/marrow: Come and sit by the fire, you look chilled to the bone.

3 (T) literary to frighten someone, especially by seeming very cruel or violent: The look in her eye chilled me.

4 (T) literary if you chill someone's hopes or keenness for doing something, you discourage them

chill out phrasal verb (I) especially AmE to relax completely instead of feeling angry, tired, or nervous: Chill out, man, I didn't mean to insult you. 2 noun

1 (singular) a feeling of coldness: There's a real chill in the air. | take the chill off (=heat something slightly): Heat the baby's milk just enough to take the chill off.

2 (C) a feeling of fear caused by something that is very unpleasant or cruel: Her description of the massacre sent a chill through the audience. | send a chill down sb's spine (=make them feel very frightened)

3 (C) a mild illness with a fever: catch a chill: It began to snow on the way home and I caught a nasty chill.

4 (singular) a way of behaving or speaking that is very unfriendly: There was a marked chill in his voice when he answered.

3 adjective unpleasantly cold: a chill wind