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Word entry · 8 letters

chilling

Best crossword clue

"Frightening or cooling"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈt͡ʃɪlɪŋ/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted cghiillnStarts with CEnds with G1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. provoking fear or terror

Word origin

From Middle English chilling, chelling, chyllinge, chillynge, chillande, equivalent to chill + -ing.

Used in a sentence

  • As they reached the street the ‘Duchess’ caught a swirling hem of lace about her chilling ankles.
  • It was a chilling story, but the children enjoyed it.
  • To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]

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01Frightening or cooling8 letters

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