chilling
aggettivoverbosostantivoattestato nei dialoghi
- //ˈt͡ʃɪlɪŋ//
Becoming cold.
aggettivo
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Becoming cold.
As they reached the street the ‘Duchess’ caught a swirling hem of lace about her chilling ankles.
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Causing cold.
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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.
Etimologia
From Middle English chilling, chelling, chyllinge, chillynge, chillande, equivalent to chill + -ing.
verbo
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Anche una forma di chillpresent participle and gerund of chill
sostantivo
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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 […]
Etimologia
From Middle English chilling, chillyng, chyllynge, equivalent to chill + -ing.
Forme
- plurale
- chillings
- comparativo
- more chilling
- superlativo
- most chilling