chilling
AdjektivVerbSubstantivin Dialogen belegt
- //ˈt͡ʃɪlɪŋ//
Becoming cold.
Adjektiv
- 1
Becoming cold.
As they reached the street the ‘Duchess’ caught a swirling hem of lace about her chilling ankles.
- 2
Causing cold.
- 3
Causing mild fear.
It was a chilling story, but the children enjoyed it.
22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/ Displaying a sturdy professionalism throughout that stops just short of artistry, director Gary Ross, who co-scripted with Collins and Billy Ray, does his strongest work in the early scenes, which set up the stakes with chilling efficiency.
Herkunft
From Middle English chilling, chelling, chyllinge, chillynge, chillande, equivalent to chill + -ing.
Verb
- 1
Auch eine Form von chillpresent participle and gerund of chill
Substantiv
- 1
The act by which something is chilled.
To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]
Herkunft
From Middle English chilling, chillyng, chyllynge, equivalent to chill + -ing.
Formen
- Plural
- chillings
- Komparativ
- more chilling
- Superlativ
- most chilling