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chill noun

  /t͡ʃɪl/
  • 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.
 Kälte, Kühle, Frost
  • 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.
 Kälte, Kühle, Frost, Kälteschauer, Schauer

chill verb

  /t͡ʃɪl/
  • (intransitive, slang) To relax; to lie back.
 chillen, relaxen
  • (transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
  • (intransitive) To become cold.
 abkühlen
  • (transitive, metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
  • (intransitive, metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
 abkühlen, abschrecken

chill adjective

  /t͡ʃɪl/
  • Moderately cold or chilly.
 kühlen, kühler

chills noun

  /t͡ʃɪlz/
  • (medicine) A feeling of being cold, a symptom of many conditions.
 Schüttelfrost

chilling adjective

  /ˈt͡ʃɪlɪŋ/
  • Causing mild fear.
 grauenerregend, gruselig, unheimlich
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