Dictionary Entry

chills

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/tʃɪlz/Used In Literature ↓

A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.

In a Sentence

“There was a chill in the air.”

Origin

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Common Phrases

. chillsdown chillschills sentchills coldchills shaking

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Poetry examples for “chills”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

But every woman's in her soul a rake.
Frail, feverish sex; their fit now chills, now burns:
Atheism and superstition rule by turns;

Which wanders, soars or vanishes, returns,
Changes, astonishes, or chills or burns,
Is unresisting, plastic, freely wrought

And sometimes horror chills our blood
To be so near such mystic Things,

Glimmer, as funeral lamps,
Amid the chills and damps
Of the vast plain where Death encamps!

And een repressed the laugh or smile--
Quake with the ague chills of fear,
And tremble though they love to hear;

Of chills and fever she died, of fever and chills,

We have little care of prison fare,
For what chills and kills outright
Is that every stone one lifts by day

We have little care of prison fare,
For what chills and kills outright
Is that every stone one lifts by day

Then Summer sinks in Autumn's reign,
And Winter chills the world again:
Her losses soon the moon supplies,

And he that works me good with unmov'd face,
Does it but half : he chills me while he aids,
My benefactor, not my brother man !