chill

n//d͡ʒil(lɯ)//

kyla, kalluft, kallna, chilla

  1. A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.

  2. A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.

  3. An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.

  4. (transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.

  5. (intransitive) To become cold.

  6. (intransitive, slang) To relax; to lie back; to take things easy.

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