chilling
/ˈt͡ʃɪlɪŋ/ adjective B2- Becoming cold.
- Causing cold.
- Causing mild fear. · It was a chilling story, but the children enjoyed it.
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It needed but this to complete the grim suggestiveness of the barren waste, the chilling wind, and the darkling sky.
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