bone-chilling
5
7.0
- adjective
- /boʊnˈtʃɪlɪŋ/
:
escalofriante
- The sound was bone-chilling.
- bone-chilling cold
- bone-chilling temperature
- bone-chilling wind
I mean, just really like bone chilling cold.
- I mean, just really like bone chilling cold.
Examples
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There had been no escaping the bone-chilling cold.
Fiction book (1992) -
Yeah, it was so bone-chilling to me, I thought a ghost had passed right through me.
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I was beginning to long for the bone-chilling cold of home.
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Sunday was bone-chilling cold at the production facility on State Line Road near here.
Blog text (10) -
No cold feels more bone-chilling than indoor cold.
Fiction book (1995) -
This feature will be much appreciated when bone-chilling January winds come sweeping off the frozen harbor.
Academic text (1996) -
Trouble started on a bone-chilling February day in Maine when Butch McCormick went out with Dodger, his beagle.
Fiction book (1999) -
In particular, comedian Mo'Nique, as the monstrous mother Mary, delivers a bone-chilling performance that makes the woman's actions understandable, if not almost sympathetic.
Blog text (15) -
Among the attributes enabling the arctic fox to tolerate such bone-chilling cold are small size and foreshortened body proportions, which reduce heat loss by minimizing surface area.
Academic text (1998) -
On this day, it was a bone-chilling 11 degrees with a wind chill of 21 below.
Synonyms
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1.0
Having a low temperature that feels chilly
100
1.0
A bit cold in a way that feels uncomfortable
91
5.1
A strange, frightening feeling as if ghosts are nearby
89
1.0
Very cold with surfaces covered in ice
34
1.0
Very cold, like frozen water
30
4.1
Very cold, like ice or freezing air
15
1.3
Very cold, at or below freezing
4
7.5
Very cold and unfriendly in the way someone behaves or looks
1
6.0
Causes a strong feeling of fear or excitement
1
5.3
Making you feel very scared or worried
1
4.1
Very cold with no warmth left
1
8.5
That makes you shiver with fear
Causing strong fear or disgust that makes you shiver
Making someone feel very afraid
Very low in temperature and clearly unfriendly
Very cold in behavior, showing no warmth or friendliness
So cold that water turns to ice
Very cold and painfully sharp, like wind that hurts skin
Very cold in a way that makes being outside difficult
Much colder than normal, for example in special freezers or very cold weather
Feeling quite cold, often said about the weather
Antonyms
How Frightening
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bone-chilling comes from putting bone and chill together to make a strong image of cold that reaches 'to the bone' or a fear that hits 'deep inside'. That's why something bone-chilling feels extremely cold or causes intense fear.