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spine-chilling

spine-chilling adjective: inducing fear or nervousness; frequently used of a work of fiction.

Adjective

spine-chilling (comparative more spine-chilling, superlative most spine-chilling)

  1. Inducing fear or nervousness; frequently used of a work of fiction.
    • The children's mother was worried that the spine-chilling ghost film would give them nightmares.

spine-chilling meaning in Malayalam

spine-chilling in Malayalam

blood-curdling, terrifying, petrifying
സംഭ്രമജനകമായ, സംഭ്രമാത്മകമായ, അതിഭീകരമായ, നാഡിന്ധമ, ഹൃദയസ്പന്ദനത്തിന്റെ വേഗം കൂട്ടുന്ന, പരിഭ്രമിപ്പിക്കുന്ന

Forms of spine-chilling

comparativemore spine-chilling
superlativemost spine-chilling

Words formed from spine-chilling

Questions about spine-chilling

What does spine-chilling mean?
Spine-chilling means inducing fear or nervousness; frequently used of a work of fiction.
What is spine-chilling in Malayalam?
Spine-chilling in Malayalam is സംഭ്രമജനകമായ, സംഭ്രമാത്മകമായ, അതിഭീകരമായ. See Spine-chilling meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is spine-chilling?
Spine-chilling is an adjective.

Words near spine-chilling in the dictionary

  1. spine-bills
  2. spine-board
  3. spine-boards
  4. spine-chiller
  5. spine-chillers
  6. spine-chilling
  7. spine-tailed swift
  8. spine-tailed swifts
  9. spine-tingler
  10. spine-tinglers
  11. spine-tingling

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: spine-chilling (page history and authors); spine-chilling (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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