Adjective : the chilling effect of the high unemployment rate. From Dictionary.com.
Adjective : a chill wind. ,chill prospects. ,a chill reception. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : The earth chills when the sun sets. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : The rain has chilled me to the bone. ,Chill the wine before serving. ,The news chilled his hopes. From Dictionary.com.
DNA finds out how the city is giving the term chilling out new meaning. From Wordnik.com. [ Analysis] Reference
Dumke said she also had seen the materials, which she described as chilling and which included statements written by Mitchell. From Wordnik.com. [Polygamy implied] Reference
Even more chilling is how this seems to be the actual case nowadays. From Wordnik.com. [Better At Home] Reference
He saw Maria wince away, her expression chilling, and hastily tried to mend the breach. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Of The Lion]
For dormant buds of fruit tree, this is commonly referred to as the chilling requirement. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The documents also lay out, in chilling detail, exactly what should occur in each two-hour waterboarding “session.”. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » How Waterboarding Was Done] Reference
Her struggle to help Jeanne and Jamie face the hard truth about their lives results in chilling psychological suspense and violent death. From Wordnik.com. [2007 February « Becca’s Byline] Reference
We spent the following day "chilling" - sunbathing in the hot sun and cooling off in the sea. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
I'd put my finger on 'chilling' - as the government and technology pry their way into the last redoubt of personal autonomy. From Wordnik.com. [Letters in Bottles] Reference
Q Does that stand by what he said in June when he though it might have a "chilling" -- his word, not mine -- a "chilling" effect?. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry] Reference
Privacy groups call the idea chilling, and costly. From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com -] Reference
He recalled a chilling moment while in police custody. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph] Reference
All in what police call a chilling plot to kidnap and kill. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 1, 2007] Reference
That's called the chilling effect, and it works wonders to destroy a university. From Wordnik.com. ["Do you have a comment now that Professor Kaplan has given his version of what he said and why?"] Reference
"He was prob'ly not feeling well; maybe what Aunt Mandy calls chilling," she said. From Wordnik.com. [What Two Children Did] Reference
Coulter is elegant, persuasive and chilling, which is how a lot of people find Kidman's acting. From Wordnik.com. [A Director Confronts Some Dark Material] Reference
In his unpublished memoirs, Mr. Manos wrote about the trials and recalled a chilling moment in 1946 when. From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference
The chilling is fairly severe. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Anonymous Comments and Modern Tort Law and Antidiscrimination Law ] Reference
"It is meant to have some kind of chilling effect.". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
M. O'BRIEN: That's kind of chilling in a way, Jeanne. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2006] Reference
That was the kind of chilling language that she conveyed. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2007] Reference
It is actually kind of chilling because it is so realistic. From Wordnik.com. [chsturtle Diary Entry] Reference
They also, Don, found videotapes which they describe as "chilling". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2007] Reference
Democrats: White House must publish 'chilling' climate change document. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Democrats: White House must publish 'chilling' climate change document] Reference
"It's kind of chilling, but maybe it's him and maybe it's not," said Mohos. From Wordnik.com. [Overlock, John F.] Reference
What she has seen affecting women and children in Africa has to be "chilling". From Wordnik.com. [Clinton in Liberia for meeting with president] Reference
That was some "chilling" ride at night and on those very narrow English roads. From Wordnik.com. [OUR CREW] Reference
The streets were baron, not a car in sight which was kind of chilling not knowing why. From Wordnik.com. [Cathedrals have a way of calling!] Reference
YOUNG: As I see those things, it's really kind of chilling for me, because I was there. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2004] Reference
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Democrats: White House must publish 'chilling' climate change document. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Democrats: White House must publish 'chilling' climate change document] Reference
We've certainly got some pretty, yeah, it's kind of chilling, isn't it, come to think about it?. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Herman Talmadge, November 8, 1990. Interview A-0347. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
She answered that without my asking by saying that Jim was just going to be here in town "chilling". From Wordnik.com. [dulligirl Diary Entry] Reference
Here, a kind of chilling numbness had entered the room at some time when he had been looking elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [beneath an opal moon]
President Clinton last week warned ominously of the "chilling" prospect of a GOP in thrall to pro-lifers. From Wordnik.com. [The Gop's Private War] Reference
Paulson's emergency session of Congress last night was characterized by lawmakers who attended as "chilling". From Wordnik.com. [The Point of No Return] Reference
He described as "chilling" what he called the BBC's improper expansion and influence in the U.K. media industry. From Wordnik.com. [BBC Trust Chairman Says Fees Shouldn't Be Shared] Reference
When the announcer describes Good Night and Good Luck, the phrase "chilling" replaces "self-congratulatory tripe.". From Wordnik.com. [Greg Gutfeld: Gutfeld's Oscar Predictions 2006] Reference
ROBERTS: And it certainly starts sort of like someone kind of chilling around on the piano, though Mr. WAINWRIGHT: Yeah. From Wordnik.com. [Rufus Wainwright's Operatic Period: 'Stars'] Reference
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