Meanings
present singular third person bechills · participle present bechilling · participle past bechilled · past bechilled
- transitiveTo effect a chill upon; give a chill to; chill all over; make chilly.
Attempting rescue from bechilled tomorrows [...]
2009, Marion Dianne Werra-Baburchak, Reflections on Water - Page 1134 more examples
The god, in fine, of every savage tribe. And as he stood, a thrill of dread instinct, As from a serpent coiled, bechilled the whole Assembly.
1875, Nathaniel Dunn, Satan chained: a poem - Page 69What brings the tears to other eyes But freezes them in mine, And what bechills another heart Fans into flame my own.
1890, Samuel R Brown, May-day dreams, Passion flowers, Poetic flights and prosy thoughtsLouder on nights when in cold glory The full moon made its meditative tour, To rich chords from her grand black piano She sang the disappointment that is Man For all her lawns and orchards: Slowly The spreading ache bechills the rampant glow Of fortune-hunting blood, [...]
1991, W. H. Auden, Collected Poems: Auden - Page 342"[...] The weather bechills me, and the wounded rampant will not show again this day, to be sure."
2006, Michele Hauf, Rhiana
Origin
From be- (“on, upon, over, all over”) + chill.
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