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bone-chilling

Adjective CEFR C1
ˈbəʊnˌtʃɪl.ɪŋ

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Suomihyytävä
Svenskagastkramande

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.
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See also

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

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