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make sb's hair stand on end
informalDefinition
› to make someone very frightened: The thought of jumping out of a plane makes my hair stand on end.Frightening and scaring
(Definition of make sb's hair stand on end from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- chill sb to the bone/marrow idiom
- cow verb
- creep noun
- frighten sb into sth phrasal verb
- frighten verb
- ghoulish adjective
- make sb's blood run cold idiom
- make sb's skin crawl idiom
- make your flesh crawl/creep idiom
- overawe verb
- petrify verb (FRIGHTEN)
- scare sb into doing sth phrasal verb
- scare sb shitless idiom
- scare sb/sth away/off phrasal verb
- send chills down/up sb's spine idiom
- send shivers down/up sb's spine idiom
- shiver noun
- terrify verb
- terrorize verb
- witless adjective
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