chilling

About 1.57 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Becoming cold.
2. adjective Causing cold.
3. adjective Causing mild fear.

   It was a chilling story, but the children enjoyed it.

4. verb present participle and gerund of chill
5. noun The act by which something is chilled.

Similar words

cooling shivery shuddery scary alarming scarey temperature reduction chilly cold frigid

Often followed by

effect and of the injury in to wind cold

Word family

chillingly