blood-chilling
adjective
(hyperbolically ) such as to make the blood run cold; terrifying, horrifying; (later also in weakened use, especially humorously ) awful, dismal; compare to make the blood run cold, chill, spine-chilling noun.
Origin
Mid 17th century; earliest use found in John Vicars (1580–1652), chronicler and poet.
- press bed
- press bedstead
- press blanket
- pressboard
- press boat
- pressbook
- press box
- press boy
- press brake
- Press Bureau
- Pressburg
- press-button
- presscake
- press card
- press charges
- press clipper
- press clipping
- press cloth
- press conference
- press copy
- press copying
- press corps
- press-corrected
- press-correction
- press corrector