Definitions

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  • adjective Very cold.
  • adjective figuratively With a strong physical or psychological unpleasant effect.

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Examples

  • You will never find the supurb produce here you are used to in Northwest Washington but you will also not find the bone-chilling rain that those berries and lettuces and rutabagas and parsnips and divine potatoes and you name it love.

    fuel, food, utilities, taxes,et cetera. 2009

  • You will never find the supurb produce here you are used to in Northwest Washington but you will also not find the bone-chilling rain that those berries and lettuces and rutabagas and parsnips and divine potatoes and you name it love.

    fuel, food, utilities, taxes,et cetera. 2009

  • A few days later, Heinonen, Yonemura, and Edwards boarded an airplane and flew to Dubai, a sunny and warm respite from the bone-chilling cold of Vienna.

    Fallout Catherine Collins 2011

  • You will never find the supurb produce here you are used to in Northwest Washington but you will also not find the bone-chilling rain that those berries and lettuces and rutabagas and parsnips and divine potatoes and you name it love.

    fuel, food, utilities, taxes,et cetera. 2009

  • You will never find the supurb produce here you are used to in Northwest Washington but you will also not find the bone-chilling rain that those berries and lettuces and rutabagas and parsnips and divine potatoes and you name it love.

    fuel, food, utilities, taxes,et cetera. 2009

  • You will never find the supurb produce here you are used to in Northwest Washington but you will also not find the bone-chilling rain that those berries and lettuces and rutabagas and parsnips and divine potatoes and you name it love.

    fuel, food, utilities, taxes,et cetera. 2009

  • He's got the menacing physique and the even more bone-chilling voice required to scare any bail-skippers and debt-ridden lowlifes right out of hiding and directly into a prison cell.

    Once Alec Baldwin Quits Acting, What Jobs Should He Pursue? » MTV Movies Blog 2009

  • His final words on John Locke were heartbreaking, bone-chilling, and illustrative of the cynical moral outlook this man sports.

    LOST: Episodes 6.01 & 6.02 Recap, ‘LA X’ » MTV Movies Blog 2010

  • You will never find the supurb produce here you are used to in Northwest Washington but you will also not find the bone-chilling rain that those berries and lettuces and rutabagas and parsnips and divine potatoes and you name it love.

    fuel, food, utilities, taxes,et cetera. 2009

  • You will never find the supurb produce here you are used to in Northwest Washington but you will also not find the bone-chilling rain that those berries and lettuces and rutabagas and parsnips and divine potatoes and you name it love.

    fuel, food, utilities, taxes,et cetera. 2009

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