Usually means: Extremely cold; deeply frightening sensation.
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  1. bone-chilling: Merriam-Webster
  2. bone-chilling, bone-chilling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Bone-chilling, bone-chilling: Wordnik
  4. bone-chilling: Wiktionary
  5. bone-chilling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bone-chilling)

▸ adjective:  Very cold.
▸ adjective:  (figuratively) Causing great terror or horror; blood-curdling.

Similar:
cold as death, cold as ice, gelid, frigid, frozen stiff, cold as a witch's kiss, coldsome, chilly, cold as balls, chilling, more...

Opposite:
balmy, mild, temperate

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Similar:
cold as death, cold as ice, gelid, frigid, frozen stiff, cold as a witch's kiss, coldsome, chilly, cold as balls, chilling, more...

Opposite:
balmy, mild, temperate



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