Usually means: Discouraging actions through fear, intimidation.
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  1. chilling effect: Wiktionary
  2. chilling effect: Dictionary.com
  3. Chilling effect (disambiguation), Chilling effect (law), Chilling effect (term), Chilling effect: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. chilling effect: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
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  3. chilling effect: Legal dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (chilling effect)

noun:  (law) A discouraging effect, especially on certain forms of officially legal speech.
noun:  Synonym of windchill.

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