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chilling

chilling

2.5
Making food or drink cold to keep it fresh
  • noun
  • /ˈtʃɪlɪŋ/
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  • After chilling the drinks in ice water, we served them to the guests.

Examples

  • All right, so in here we've been chilling the meat and as you guys know, we've got three different types of fillets we're doing.

  • This one should be much more solid and it's been chilling for about a week.

  • Windows are open, carcass is still warm, and it's chilling down slowly.

  • And while my skin is still kind of wet and chilling, I'm just going to brush my teeth.

  • The chilling of the soup allowed the flavors to meld perfectly.

  • Leaving the meat in the fridge for a few hours before cooking is essential for proper chilling.

Synonyms

cooling
vschilling
60 2.1

A drop in temperature that makes something colder

is mainly used for deliberate lowering of temperature
refrigeration
vschilling
  • Specialized
15 3.5

Cooling or freezing food to keep it fresh

is deliberate lowering of temperature in many contexts, not only food
temperature reduction
vschilling
1 3.3

A drop in the temperature of something

is the deliberate process that brings about such a drop
infrigidation
vschilling
  • Specialized
9.9

To cool or freeze food to keep it fresh

is the broader deliberate lowering of temperature beyond food preservation

Antonyms

heating
23 1.0

The process of something becoming or being made warm

Compounds

bone-chilling
5 7.0

Very cold or scary

How Cold

freezing
79 1.6
chilling
2.5
cooling
60 2.1

Surface Forms

chilling singular
chillings plural

Morphology

chilling = chill (transparent) = chill + ing

Standard gerund/nominalization of the verb 'chill', directly meaning the process or result of making cold.

Etymology

Chilling is the -ing form of chill, which means 'to make cold'. So chilling is the act or process of making something colder, like putting drinks in the freezer to cool them quickly.