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chill to the bone

chill to the bone verb: to make someone extremely cold, or to be extremely cold.

Verb

chill to the bone (third-person singular simple present chills to the bone, present participle chilling to the bone, simple past and past participle chilled to the bone)

  1. (idiomatic) To make someone extremely cold, or to be extremely cold.
    • I was just chilled to the bone.
    • Till now I always got by on my own / I never really cared until I met you / And now it chills me to the bone / How do I get you alone? / How do I get you alone?1983, Billy Steinberg, Tom Kelly, “Alone”, in Bad Animals, performed by Heart, published 1987

Forms of chill to the bone

third-person singular presentchills to the bone
present participlechilling to the bone
past participlechilled to the bone
pastchilled to the bone

Questions about chill to the bone

What does chill to the bone mean?
Chill to the bone means to make someone extremely cold, or to be extremely cold.
What part of speech is chill to the bone?
Chill to the bone is a verb.
What is the past tense of chill to the bone?
The past tense of chill to the bone is chilled to the bone.

Words near chill to the bone in the dictionary

  1. chill it with
  2. chill out
  3. chill outs
  4. chill pill
  5. chill pills
  6. chill to the bone
  7. chill-out
  8. chill-outs
  9. chilla
  10. chillable
  11. chillador

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