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Hair-raising   /hɛr-rˈeɪzɪŋ/   Listen
Hair-raising

adjective
1.
Extremely alarming.  Synonyms: bloodcurdling, nightmarish.






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"Hair-raising" Quotes from Famous Books



... from their guns, a screaming group of women and tiny children. The entrance was entirely cleared! undoubtedly the crowds were returning to the village after the General's pardon. . . . Desnoyers was half way down the avenue when he heard a howling sound composed of many voices, a hair-raising shriek such as only womanly desperation can send forth. At the same time, the air was vibrating with snaps, the loud cracking sound that he knew from the day before. Shots! . . . He imagined that on the other side of the iron railing there were ...
— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez



Words linked to "Hair-raising" :   alarming



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