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Horripilate

verb
1.
Have one's hair stand on end and get goosebumps.
2.
Cause (someone's) hair to stand on end and to have goosebumps.






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"Horripilate" Quotes from Famous Books



... numbness, frostbite. V. be cold &c. adj[intrans.].; shiver, starve, quake, shake, tremble, shudder, didder[obs3], quiver; freeze, freeze to death, perish with cold. [transitive] chill, freeze &c. (render cold) 385; horripilate[obs3], make the skin crawl, give one goose flesh. Adj. cold, cool; chill, chilly; icy; gelid, frigid, algid[obs3]; fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous[obs3], cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching; clay-cold; starved &c. (made cold) ...
— Roget's Thesaurus



Words linked to "Horripilate" :   stir, excite, horripilation, have, experience, receive, stimulate, get



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