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chilling

[ chil-ing ]

adjective

  1. causing or likely to cause a chill:

    the chilling effect of the high unemployment rate.



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The many questions about the site continue to haunt many in Mexico, especially the searchers who arrived at the site in March and distributed photos of abandoned personal items, charred bones and other chilling finds.

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She left a chilling 37-second voicemail message as he attacked her with multiple knives.

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A majority of the US public still backs the crackdown, but it has had a chilling effect on communities of foreign students who have found themselves caught up in the blitz.

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We recognise the chilling effect that harassment and intimidation of elected representatives can have on our democracy.

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Belsen's notoriety soon stood out, not just because of the chillingly vivid accounts of journalists, soldiers and photographers, whose testimonies were sent around the world, but because it was found with all its grotesqueness intact.

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