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Meaning of bone-chilling | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

/ˈbəʊnˌtʃɪl.ɪŋ/

Definitions

Very cold.
Causing great terror or horror; blood-curdling.
figuratively

Examples

“I arrived on a day of this last cold bone-chilling month of December.”

“Ever since that bone-chilling post-Super Bowl two-parter […] Reid just can't say no to drugs.”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

bone-crunching bone-deep bone-dry bone-hard bone-idle bone-in