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View synonyms for hair-raising

hair-raising

[ hair-rey-zing ]

adjective

  1. terrifying or horrifying:

    We had a hair-raising brush with death.



hair-raising

adjective

  1. inspiring horror; terrifying

    a hair-raising drop of 600 feet

“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


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Derived Forms

  • ˈhair-ˌraiser, noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hair-raising1

First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences

So undoubtedly, there will be some isolated hair-raising increases.

In a hair-raising series of events, he was able to get a ticket to the United States and get out of Uganda.

Very little excited Jay, not even his own hair-raising habit of reading while he drove.

The facts in the case are well-known, yet remain hair-raising.

The explosive finale, when demonic fans run amok at a movie premiere, is hair-raising in its viciousness.

The submarine E.14 sailed into harbour after a series of hair-raising adventures in the Sea of Marmora.

It was a hair-raising problem, too, and called for every ounce of nerve and every particle of skill the boy possessed.

But Braithwaite has won his spurs now in many a hair-raising crisis, so K. may let his mind rest at ease.

He related with appropriate force the hair-raising episode of the weird white figure.

Welcome described another hair-raising turn at another place that allowed him to circle, and came whooping back.

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