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chilling out

chilling out is the present participle and gerund of chill out.

Meaning of chill out

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, slang) To relax or take time out; to calm down; reduce or go easy on something.
    • Since I'm between projects, I think I'll just chill out.
    Synonyms:
    chill
  2. (dated, intransitive, slang) To hang out; spend time together with another person or group.
    • Hey, we should chill out together this weekend.
    Synonyms:
    chill, hang out

Questions about chilling out

What is chilling out the present participle and gerund of?
Chilling out is the present participle and gerund of chill out.

Words near chilling out in the dictionary

  1. chillinesses
  2. chilling
  3. chilling effect
  4. chilling effects
  5. chilling it with
  6. chilling out
  7. chilling to the bone
  8. Chillingham
  9. chillingly
  10. chillingness
  11. Chillingollah

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chilling out (page history and authors); chill out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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