Synonyms for chills

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : chil

Phonetic Transcription : tʃɪl

Top 10 synonyms for chills

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Définition of chills

Origin : Old English ciele, cele "cold, coolness, chill, frost," from Proto-Germanic *kal- "to be cold," from PIE root *gel- "cold" (see cold). According to OED, the word seems to have been obsolete after c.1400 (displaced by cold) and the modern use is a back-formation since c.1600 from the verb.

noun cold conditions
verb make cold
verb discourage

Example sentences :

But the fall of 1830 was a very bad season in Illinois for chills and fever.
Extract from : « The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln » by Wayne Whipple

It is as if you were surrounded by a fog, which benumbs you, and chills all who approach you.
Extract from : « A Love Story Reversed » by Edward Bellamy

You ought to go somewhere where you needn't be afraid of chills.
Extract from : « Rudder Grange » by Frank R. Stockton

I think you'd better take something, to guard against the chills.
Extract from : « Down The River » by Oliver Optic

He was dried up to gristle and bone, and shook with chills every third night.
Extract from : « Cabbages and Kings » by O. Henry

I have had no chills nor fevers this winter, nor cold in any form.
Extract from : « The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure » by Edward Hooker Dewey

It is an atmosphere that chills the finest delicacies and sensibilities of the soul.
Extract from : « A Handful of Stars » by Frank W. Boreham

And till the ideal is found, how the shadow that it throws before it chills us to the actual!
Extract from : « Zanoni » by Edward Bulwer Lytton

At first she did not exactly comprehend it, but when she did, the chills increased.
Extract from : « The Associate Hermits » by Frank R. Stockton

I heard from my dear little Rob, who had an attack of chills and fever.
Extract from : « Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee » by (His Son) Captain Robert E. Lee

Antonyms for chills

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