Hair-raising

Synonyms for "hair-raising" (32 found)

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Translations

15 translations across 11 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries
  • ужасяващ adj (scary)

Catalan

1 entries
  • esgarrifós adj (scary)

Dutch

1 entries
  • bloedstollend adj (scary)

German

1 entries
  • haarsträubend adj (scary)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • hajmeresztő adj (scary)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • hårreisende adj (scary)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • hårreisande adj (scary)

Spanish

4 entries
  • erizante adj (scary)
  • escalofriante adj (scary)
  • espeluznante adj (scary)
  • horripilante adj (scary)

Swedish

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  • hårresande adj (scary)

Thai

2 entries
  • ขนลุก adj (scary)
  • ขนหัวลุก adj (scary)

Turkish

1 entries
  • tüyler ürpertici adj (scary)

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

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That's a hair-raising thought.

Source: tatoeba (373356)

It would be a waste of energy to tell a hair-raising story to a bald man.

Source: tatoeba (752696)

In the new exhibit, “Natural History of Horror,” the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County explains the link between art and reality, and shows how filmmakers looked to science and archeology as inspiration for hair-raising movie monsters.

Source: tatoeba (8296649)

The article that David Borgenicht was reading told people how they might safely land a small plane if the pilot passes out. It got him thinking about other hair-raising situations in movies and TV shows. Of course it’s one thing for an action hero to leap from a moving motorcycle into a car or fend off a killer shark. But how would ordinary, out-of-shape readers do it? How would they wrestle free from an alligator, for example, or survive if their parachutes do not open, or escape from a mountain lion?

Source: tatoeba (10841980)

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