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Chilled

Chill \Chill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chilled (ch[i^]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Chilling.]

  1. To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold.

    When winter chilled the day.
    --Goldsmith.

  2. To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage.

    Every thought on God chills the gayety of his spirits.
    --Rogers.

  3. (Metal.) 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.

Chilled

Chilled \Chilled\, a.

  1. Hardened on the surface or edge by chilling; as, chilled iron; a chilled wheel.

  2. (Paint.) Having that cloudiness or dimness of surface that is called ``blooming.''

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chilled
  1. cooled. v

  2. (en-simple past of: chill)

Wikipedia
Chilled

Chilled is a 1999 EP by Chicane featuring remixes of some of his earlier singles.

Usage examples of "chilled".

Even as the door slid shut behind him, a half dozen voices inside her head were whispering warnings of where the danger in this plan might lie, describing the various things that Allo and the Guild might do to her while she was chilled and helpless.

As she started to pluck the ivory pins from her hair, Amri entered with glasses and a pitcher of chilled wine.

And a glass of chilled Chenin Blanc and a warm smile had greeted her as she opened the door.

For a moment, she wished they were at home, in her bathroom, with a bottle of chilled Chenin Blanc and a large loofah, but then she acknowledged there would be time for that tomorrow.

Lady Daws stated, her voice low and ever cultured, but carrying with it such malice that Kat was chilled.

And now, waiting beneath the grey, gravid sky, there was a foreboding that recalled his deepest memories, distant childhood images of chilled teeth, bewilderment, and dread.

As Domini watched him going she felt chilled, because there was something in his manner, in his smile, that seemed for the moment to set them apart from each other, something she did not understand.

I only know that I awoke sodden and chilled on the floor of a lighter that was being poled against the current by a fenman on his way to market, an ancient turf-cutter named Noah Bright.

Chilled by more than cold, feeling exposed despite his battle-honed weapons and chain mail, the Alliance Lord Commander swept the mottled folds of the hills.

The lights of passing ships gleamed halolike from blackened waters, while the still, chilled air quivered with the husky blares of steamboat whistles.

Both Merry and Hodge forgot their discomfort, forgot their chilled and benumbed condition, and, lifting themselves as high as they could, shouted for assistance.

She poured the chilled homa and brought the tumbler to the table, sitting across from Jenna.

The waiter had recommended the fresh mussels steamed in white wine sauce, and Dan, repeating the experience of the Italian restaurant in Philadelphia, had settled for two appetizers: the mussels and an order of the fried calamari, plus an entire bottle of chilled Lacrima Christi and a basket of their excellent bread.

A bottle of Liebfraumilch, chilled and beaded with perspiration, was lurking inside there, too, along with a tin of p5t6.

He passed out on a railroad track between Sancto and Manzanillo, where he got fatally chilled from the desert dew.