transitive. To frighten greatly, terrify.

transitive. To inspire or affect with dread, loathing, or disgust.

To congeal (the blood) as if by frost; chiefly as a hyperbolical expression for the effect of terror. Hence with personal object, to ‘make (one's)…

Of hair: To form curls or ringlets. In colloquial use: cf. sense 1b.

transitive (frequently with non-referential it as subject). To horrify, disgust, repel.

to chill the (also a person's) blood: to horrify or terrify (a person); to unnerve, unsettle; also to chill one's blood; cf. freeze, v. 5c.

(transitive) to affect with horror, horrify.

transitive. To cause or excite horror in; to move to horror.

to curl (a person's) hair: to horrify, to frighten. colloquial.