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spine-chilling

[spahyn-chil-ing]

adjective

  1. very frightening or horrifying.



spine-chilling

adjective

  1. (of a book, film, etc) arousing terror

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of spine-chilling1

First recorded in 1945–50; spine ( def. ) + chilling ( def. )
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While his decimation of any semblance of Justice Department independence is troubling, it’s downright spine-chilling when it comes to elections.

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The best film goes first: It’s about a father-daughter camping trip that goes horribly wrong at the hands of a creepy-looking park ranger and, in a spine-chilling scene, living sand.

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Dahlia Lithwick looks at how his rhetoric has been getting even more spine-chilling of late, and why we can’t afford to lose sight of what’s at stake.

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As Trump openly described his rationale for his plans last week in the most spine-chilling language yet, undocumented immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.”

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To visit the spine-chilling inside of Vecna’s mind, head to 10th Avenue West in Queen Anne where it meets West Bothwell Street.

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