chill

1a :  moderately coldb :  cold, raw

2 :  affected by cold chill travelers

3 :  distant, formal a chill reception

4 :  depressing, dispiriting chill penury — Thomas Gray

1a :  to become coldb :  to shiver or quake with or as if with cold

2 :  to become taken with a chill

3a :  chill outb :  hang 12

1a :  to make cold or chilly chilled by a cold windb :  to make cool especially without freezing chill the wine

2 :  to affect as if with cold :  dispirit

1 :  coldness that is unpleasant but not extreme There was a chill in the autumn air.

2 :  a feeling of coldness accompanied by shivering She has a fever and chills.

3 :  a feeling of coldness caused by fear The grisly sight gave me the chills.

1 :  unpleasantly cold :  raw Everything was damp and chill and miserable in the wagon … — Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie

2 :  not friendly a chill greeting

1 :  to make or become cold or chilly The wind chilled us to the bone.

2 :  to make cool especially without freezing Chill the pudding for dessert.

3 :  to cause to feel cold from fear This ghost story will chill you.

1:  a sensation of cold accompanied by shivering

2:  a disagreeable sensation of coldness

1a:  to become coldb:  to shiver or quake with or as if with cold

2:  to become affected with a chill

:  to discourage especially through fear of penalty :  have a chilling effect on statutes which may chill the exercise of…free expression — M. H. Redish