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Definition of hair-raising in English: hair-raisingadjectiveˈhɛːreɪzɪŋˈhɛ(ə)r ˌreɪzɪŋ Extremely alarming, astonishing, or frightening. Example sentencesExamples - Getting a real good hair-raising scare will produce an increase in an individual's terror.
- The short second act ends with the vow of martyrdom, setting the stage for one of the most hair-raising operatic finales.
- In the afternoon, I encountered another hair-raising incident.
- Then he has the other cars brought closer together and repeats the hair-raising movement into such a confined space that one of them has to be moved to let him out again.
- They can be pretty hair-raising, these happy endings.
- Fifteen minutes later, after hair-raising swerving and lane-changing, we ended up at a gem-dealer.
- They had vast tracts of possession, got themselves into some highly promising field positions but were undone at the tackle zone with hair-raising regularity.
- Four asylum-seekers spent 18 hair-raising hours clinging to the underneath of a coach in an attempt to get into the UK.
- To that end, he embarked upon wholesale change: 14 players in and 14 out during that hair-raising first season.
- A family is setting off on what many would consider a hair-raising adventure by upping roots and moving to the other side of the globe.
- A number of large financial advisers have bought the membership list and are bombarding policyholders with some fairly hair-raising literature.
- Even within such parameters I have had plenty of adventures of my own abroad, some more hair-raising than others.
- It's not as hair-raising as I thought it might be - mostly uniforms in display cases and a cannon in the middle of the room.
- The hair-raising charity event may yet turn out to be the least perilous experience of the 43-year-old's recent career.
- Bristling with wit and invention, these tales are full of hair-brained schemes, hair-raising moments, and incredibly close shaves.
- Their caustic relationship alternates between comic turns and hair-raising go-for-blood verbal combat.
- The howling of the sirens, which shriek to announce the beginning and end of each air raid alarm, merge into a single, hair-raising noise.
- Viewers could not help screaming and offering instant forgiveness because the hair-raising act had been so nearly perfect.
- Dogs howled or let out hair-raising deep-guttural sounds.
- Even a thought of this kind might be hair-raising.
Synonyms terrifying, frightening, petrifying, alarming, chilling, horrifying, shocking, scaring, spine-chilling, blood-curdling, appalling, dreadful, fearsome, nightmarish eerie, sinister, weird, ghostly, unearthly Scottish eldritch informal hairy, spooky, scary, creepy, spine-tingling
Definition of hair-raising in US English: hair-raisingadjectiveˈhe(ə)r ˌrāziNGˈhɛ(ə)r ˌreɪzɪŋ Extremely alarming, astonishing, or frightening. Example sentencesExamples - Their caustic relationship alternates between comic turns and hair-raising go-for-blood verbal combat.
- It's not as hair-raising as I thought it might be - mostly uniforms in display cases and a cannon in the middle of the room.
- Then he has the other cars brought closer together and repeats the hair-raising movement into such a confined space that one of them has to be moved to let him out again.
- To that end, he embarked upon wholesale change: 14 players in and 14 out during that hair-raising first season.
- Even a thought of this kind might be hair-raising.
- The hair-raising charity event may yet turn out to be the least perilous experience of the 43-year-old's recent career.
- Bristling with wit and invention, these tales are full of hair-brained schemes, hair-raising moments, and incredibly close shaves.
- They had vast tracts of possession, got themselves into some highly promising field positions but were undone at the tackle zone with hair-raising regularity.
- Dogs howled or let out hair-raising deep-guttural sounds.
- Four asylum-seekers spent 18 hair-raising hours clinging to the underneath of a coach in an attempt to get into the UK.
- In the afternoon, I encountered another hair-raising incident.
- They can be pretty hair-raising, these happy endings.
- Viewers could not help screaming and offering instant forgiveness because the hair-raising act had been so nearly perfect.
- Even within such parameters I have had plenty of adventures of my own abroad, some more hair-raising than others.
- A number of large financial advisers have bought the membership list and are bombarding policyholders with some fairly hair-raising literature.
- Fifteen minutes later, after hair-raising swerving and lane-changing, we ended up at a gem-dealer.
- The howling of the sirens, which shriek to announce the beginning and end of each air raid alarm, merge into a single, hair-raising noise.
- Getting a real good hair-raising scare will produce an increase in an individual's terror.
- The short second act ends with the vow of martyrdom, setting the stage for one of the most hair-raising operatic finales.
- A family is setting off on what many would consider a hair-raising adventure by upping roots and moving to the other side of the globe.
Synonyms terrifying, frightening, petrifying, alarming, chilling, horrifying, shocking, scaring, spine-chilling, blood-curdling, appalling, dreadful, fearsome, nightmarish
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