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spine chilling

spine chilling is the alternative spelling of spine-chilling.

Meaning of spine-chilling

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.

Questions about spine chilling

What is spine chilling the alternative spelling of?
Spine chilling is the alternative spelling of spine-chilling.

Words near spine chilling in the dictionary

  1. spindrift
  2. spindrifts
  3. spine
  4. spine board
  5. spine boards
  6. spine chilling
  7. spine pig
  8. spine pigs
  9. spine plot
  10. spine plots
  11. spine ramp

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spine chilling (page history and authors); spine-chilling (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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