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adjective terrifying or horrifying: We had a hair-raising brush with death.
Origin of hair-raising First recorded in 1895–1900
Words nearby hair-raising hair of the dog that bit you, hair papilla, hairpiece, hairpin, hair-raiser, hair-raising , hair restorer, hair root, hairsbreadth, hair seal, hair sheep
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Example sentences from the Web for hair-raising In a hair-raising series of events, he was able to get a ticket to the United States and get out of Uganda.
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Very little excited Jay, not even his own hair-raising habit of reading while he drove.
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The explosive finale, when demonic fans run amok at a movie premiere, is hair-raising in its viciousness.
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The yells which accompanied it were hair-raising as the shrieks from a band of maniacs.
Ben Blair | Will Lillibridge
We were through in safety, but it was the most hair-raising thirty seconds I ever experienced.
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Copple immediately topped my stories by more wonderful and hair-raising ones about his own adventures in northern Mexico.
Tales of lonely trails | Zane Grey
Isn't there any special form of hair-raising invocation that goes with this dangerous operation?
Visionaries | James Huneker
Long, hair-raising , and Spanish-scalping sentences rolled from his lips like crude petroleum from a five-inch pipe.
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British Dictionary definitions for hair-raising adjective inspiring horror; terrifying a hair-raising drop of 600 feet
Derived forms of hair-raising hair-raiser , noun Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Words related to hair-raising breathtaking, terrifying, shocking, frightening, chilling, suspenseful, electrifying, exciting, spine-tingling, bloodcurdling, cliff-hanging, spine-chilling