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Chilling
- verb - depress or discourage; "The news of the city's surrender chilled the soldiers"
- loose heat; "The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm"
- make cool or cooler; "Chill the food"
- provoking fear terror; "a scary movie"; "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge"
- the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature
Circling
- verb - form a circle around; "encircle the errors"
- move in circles
- travel around something; "circle the globe"
Cobbling
- verb - pave with cobblestones
- repair or mend; "cobble shoes"
- the shoemaker's trade
Cockling
- verb - stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips"
Coddling
- verb - cook in nearly boiling water; "coddle eggs"
- pamper
- treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"
Coggling
- verb - move unsteadily; "His knees wobbled"; "The old cart wobbled down the street"
- walk unsteadily; "small children toddle"
Coupling
- verb - a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together
- a mechanical device that serves to connect the ends of adjacent objects
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together; "This fact is coupled to the other one"; "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?"; "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project"
- engage in sexual intercourse; "Birds mate in the Spring"
- form a pair or pairs; "The two old friends paired off"
- link together; "can we couple these proposals?"
- the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring"
Cradling
- verb - bring up from infancy
- cut grain with a cradle scythe
- hold gently and carefully; "He cradles the child in his arms"
- hold or place in or as if in a cradle; "He cradled the infant in his arms"
- run with the stick
- wash in a cradle; "cradle gold"
Crawling
- verb - a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body; "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep"
- be full of; "The old cheese was crawling with maggots"
- feel as if crawling with insects; "My skin crawled--I was terrified"
- move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"
- show submission or fear
- swim by doing the crawl; "European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl"
Cuddling
- verb - affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs)
- hold (a person or thing) close, as for affection, comfort, or warmth; "I cuddled the baby"
- move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position; "We cuddled against each other to keep warm"; "The children snuggled into their sleeping bags"