bone-chilling
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bone-chilling (comparative more bone-chilling, superlative most bone-chilling)
- Very cold.
- 1861, “Volunteers at Hythe”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round, volume IV, page 402:
- I arrived on a day of this last cold bone-chilling month of December.
- (figuratively) Causing great terror or horror; blood-curdling.
- 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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