bone-chilling
English
Adjective
bone-chilling (not comparable)
- Very cold.
- 1861, Charles Dickens, All the year round, volume IV, chap. Volunteers at hythe, p. 402:
- I arrived on a day of this last cold bone-chilling month of December.
- 1861, Charles Dickens, All the year round, volume IV, chap. Volunteers at hythe, p. 402:
- (figuratively) With a strong physical or psychological unpleasant effect.
- 2007, Jonathan Small, Chic geek: Ex model Matthew Gray Gubler channels his inner nerd on Criminal Minds, in Tv guide, February 26, p. 23:
- Ever since that bone-chilling post-Super Bowl two-parter […] Reid just can't say no to drugs.
- 2007, Jonathan Small, Chic geek: Ex model Matthew Gray Gubler channels his inner nerd on Criminal Minds, in Tv guide, February 26, p. 23:
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