Chilled vs. Chill — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Chilled and Chill
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Chilled
A moderate but penetrating coldness.
Chill
An unpleasant feeling of coldness in the atmosphere, one's surroundings, or the body
The draughty chill of the castle
There was a chill in the air
Heat exhaustion symptoms include nausea, chills, dizziness and dehydration
Chilled
A sensation of coldness, often accompanied by shivering and pallor of the skin.
Chill
A metal mould, often cooled, designed to ensure rapid or even cooling of metal during casting.
Chilled
A checking or dampening of enthusiasm, spirit, or joy
Bad news that put a chill on the celebration.
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Chill
Make (someone) cold
They were chilled by a sudden wind
Chilled
A sudden numbing fear or dread.
Chill
Horrify or frighten (someone)
The city was chilled by the violence
Chilled
Moderately cold; chilly
A chill wind.
Chill
Calm down and relax
They like to get home, have a bath, and chill out
Chilled
Not warm and friendly; distant
A chill greeting.
Chill
Chilly
The chill grey dawn
The chill winds of public censure
Chilled
Discouraging; dispiriting
“Chill penury repressed their noble rage” (Thomas Gray).
Chill
Very relaxed or easy-going
The island is really chill and laid-back
In general, I am a pretty chill guy
Chilled
(Slang) Calm or relaxed
“As my meditation routine grew more stable...my already laid-back demeanor grew positively chill” (David Gelles).
Chill
A moderate but penetrating coldness.
Chilled
To affect with or as if with cold.
Chill
A sensation of coldness, often accompanied by shivering and pallor of the skin.
Chilled
To lower in temperature; cool.
Chill
A checking or dampening of enthusiasm, spirit, or joy
Bad news that put a chill on the celebration.
Chilled
To make discouraged; dispirit.
Chill
A sudden numbing fear or dread.
Chilled
(Metallurgy) To harden (a metallic surface) by rapid cooling.
Chill
Moderately cold; chilly
A chill wind.
Chilled
To be seized with cold.
Chill
Not warm and friendly; distant
A chill greeting.
Chilled
To become cold or set
Jelly that chills quickly.
Chill
Discouraging; dispiriting
“Chill penury repressed their noble rage” (Thomas Gray).
Chilled
(Metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
Chill
(Slang) Calm or relaxed
“As my meditation routine grew more stable...my already laid-back demeanor grew positively chill” (David Gelles).
Chilled
To calm down or relax. Often used with out.
Chill
To affect with or as if with cold.
Chilled
To pass time idly; loiter.
Chill
To lower in temperature; cool.
Chilled
To spend time with someone in a relaxed manner; hang out together.
Chill
To make discouraged; dispirit.
Chilled
Cooled.
The chilled beer was refreshing on the hot day.
Chill
(Metallurgy) To harden (a metallic surface) by rapid cooling.
Chilled
Chilled out; relaxed
Chill
To be seized with cold.
Chilled
Hardened on the surface or edge by chilling; as, chilled iron; a chilled wheel.
Chill
To become cold or set
Jelly that chills quickly.
Chilled
Having that cloudiness or dimness of surface that is called "blooming."
Chill
(Metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
Chill
To calm down or relax. Often used with out.
Chill
To pass time idly; loiter.
Chill
To spend time with someone in a relaxed manner; hang out together.
Chill
A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
There was a chill in the air.
Chill
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.
Close the window or you'll catch a chill.
I felt a chill when the wind picked up.
Chill
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.
Despite the heat, he felt a chill as he entered the crime scene.
The actor's eerie portrayal sent chills through the audience.
His menacing presence cast a chill over everyone.
Chill
An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it..
Chill
The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
Chill
A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
Chill
Calmness; equanimity.
Chill
A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
Chill
Moderately cold or chilly.
A chill wind was blowing down the street.
Chill
Unwelcoming; not cordial.
Arriving late at the wedding, we were met with a chill reception.
Chill
(slang) Calm, relaxed, easygoing.
The teacher is really chill and doesn't care if you use your phone during class.
Paint-your-own ceramics studios are a chill way to express yourself while learning more about your date's right brain.
Chill
(slang) "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
That new movie was chill, man.
Chill
(slang) Okay, not a problem.
Sorry about that. —It's chill.
Chill
(transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
Chill before serving.
Chill
(intransitive) To become cold.
In the wind he chilled quickly.
Chill
To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
Chill
To become hard by rapid cooling.
Chill
To relax; to lie back.
Chill, man, we've got a whole week to do it; no sense in getting worked up.
The new gym teacher really has to chill or he's gonna blow a gasket.
Chill
To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.
Hey, we should chill this weekend.
Chill
To smoke marijuana.
On Friday night do you wanna chill?
Chill
To discourage, depress.
Censorship chills public discourse.
Chill
A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.
Chill
A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever.
Chill
A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.
Chill
An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
Chill
The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel.
Chill
Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.
Noisome winds, and blasting vapors chill.
Chill
Affected by cold.
Chill
Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception.
Chill
Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.
Chill
To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold.
When winter chilled the day.
Chill
To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage.
Every thought on God chills the gayety of his spirits.
Chill
To produce, by sudden cooling, a change of crystallization at or near the surface of, so as to increase the hardness; said of cast iron.
Chill
To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.
Chill
Coldness due to a cold environment
Chill
An almost pleasurable sensation of fright;
A frisson of surprise shot through him
Chill
A sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
Chill
A sudden numbing dread
Chill
Depress or discourage;
The news of the city's surrender chilled the soldiers
Chill
Make cool or cooler;
Chill the food
Chill
Loose heat;
The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm
Chill
Uncomfortably cool;
A chill wind
Chilly weather
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