Usually means: Skin's reaction to cold, fear.
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  1. gooseflesh: Merriam-Webster
  2. gooseflesh: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gooseflesh: Vocabulary.com
  4. Gooseflesh, gooseflesh: Wordnik
  5. gooseflesh: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. gooseflesh: Wiktionary
  7. gooseflesh: Dictionary.com
  8. gooseflesh: Rhymezone
  9. gooseflesh: FreeDictionary.org
  10. gooseflesh: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. gooseflesh: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. gooseflesh: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. gooseflesh: Encyclopedia

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  1. gooseflesh: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Gooseflesh: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. gooseflesh: Medical dictionary
  4. Gooseflesh: Drug Medical Dictionary

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▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of goose flesh [Synonym of goose bumps]

Similar:
goose skin, Goose bumps, goose pimple, Goosebumps, shiver, chills, goosepimples, prickling, tingle, shivery, more...

Opposite:
piloerection, horripilation

Types:
horripilation, piloerection, goosebumps, cutis anserina, cold chills, more...

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Similar:
goose skin, Goose bumps, goose pimple, Goosebumps, shiver, chills, goosepimples, prickling, tingle, shivery, more...

Opposite:
piloerection, horripilation

Types:
horripilation, piloerection, goosebumps, cutis anserina, cold chills, more...



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