chilling

adj

1. Becoming cold.

   “As they reached the street the ‘Duchess’ caught a swirling hem of lace about her chilling ankles.”

2. Causing cold.
3. Causing mild fear.

   “It was a chilling story, but the children enjoyed it.”

   “22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/ Displaying a sturdy professionalism throughout that stops just short of artistry, director Gary Ross, who co-scripted with Collins and Billy Ray, does his strongest work in the early scenes, which set up the stakes with chilling efficiency.”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of chill

noun

1. The act by which something is chilled.

   “To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]”