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語源 1

From 中期英語 chilling, chelling, chyllinge, chillynge, chillande, equivalent to chill +‎ -ing.

形容詞

chilling (comparative more chilling, superlative most chilling)

1. Becoming cold.
   • 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 22:

     As they reached the street the ‘Duchess’ caught a swirling hem of lace about her chilling ankles.

2. Causing cold.
3. Causing mild fear.

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

   • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]

     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.

派生語

動詞

chilling

1. present participle and gerund of chill

派生語

• bone-chilling

語源 2

From 中期英語 chilling, chillyng, chyllynge, equivalent to chill +‎ -ing.

名詞

chilling (plural chillings)

1. The act by which something is chilled.
   • 2004, Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus, page 73:

     To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]