Synonyms for CHILLING
chill·ing

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1. cooling, chilling, temperature reductionadjective

   the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature

   Synonyms:
   temperature reduction, chilling, cooling system, cooling

   Antonyms:
   unalarming

2. chilling, scarey, scary, shivery, shudderyadjective

   provoking fear terror

   "a scary movie"; "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge"

   Synonyms:
   scary, shivery, chilling, scarey, shuddery

   Antonyms:
   unalarming

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1. lounging

   Submitted by anonymous on February 5, 2020  

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1. List of paraphrases for "chilling":

   cooling, refrigeration, bone-chilling, frightening, paralysing, terrifying, hair-raising, deterrent, scary, cold

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1. David Griffiths:

   This spate of savage killings must end here, there is little doubt that these especially brutal killings are designed to sow fear and to have a chilling effect on free speech. This is unacceptable.

2. Michael Zeldin:

   Criminalizing political opposition research-related activity of this type serves no criminal justice purpose, hopefully, this verdict will have a chilling impact on future prosecutions if John Durham intends to proceed using the same flawed theory of criminal liability.

3. Cheryl Harris:

   For anybody who’s ever taught in a classroom, the idea is to get the conversation flowing, and you can’t do that if you’re preoccupied with which side of the line are you going to be on, that is a chilling effect, and that is every bit as offensive to the First Amendment as a direct ban.

4. District Judge Randolph Moss:

   Our elected representatives from both political parties came together that day to perform their constitutional and statutory duty to declare, in the word of the statute, the person elected president, the mob's objective was to stop that from happening. They were prepared to break the law to prevent Congress from performing its constitutional and statutory duty. That is chilling for many reasons.

5. Emerson Sykes:

   Government bodies should always strive for transparency, and the ACLU supports any good-faith effort to make public education as transparent as possible to parents and communities, but some of these so-called ‘curriculum transparency bills’ are thinly veiled attempts at chilling teachers and students from learning and talking about race and gender in schools. Their sponsors have said as much.