Usually means: Cause hair to stand up.
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  1. horripilate: Merriam-Webster
  2. horripilate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. horripilate: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. horripilate: Wiktionary
  7. horripilate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. horripilate: Infoplease Dictionary
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  10. horripilate: Rhymezone
  11. horripilate: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  12. horripilate: FreeDictionary.org
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  14. horripilate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. horripilate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. horripilate: Medical dictionary

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  1. horripilate: Wordcraft Dictionary

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▸ verb:  (ambitransitive) To bristle in fear or horror; to have goose bumps or goose pimples.

Similar:
perscopate, shudder, agrise, forhare, trepidate, thrill, hagride, make someone's skin creep, take fright, geek out, more...

Opposite:
smooth, calm, relaxed, unexcited

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Similar:
perscopate, shudder, agrise, forhare, trepidate, thrill, hagride, make someone's skin creep, take fright, geek out, more...

Opposite:
smooth, calm, relaxed, unexcited



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