verb
1. have one's hair stand on end and get goosebumps
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I horripilate when I see violence on television
• Derivationally related forms: ↑horripilation
• Hypernyms: ↑experience, ↑receive, ↑have, ↑get
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s
2. cause (someone's) hair to stand on end and to have goosebumps
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Hitchcock movies horripilate me
• Derivationally related forms: ↑horripilation
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s somebody
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Something ——s somebody
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\\hȯˈripəˌlāt\ transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-s)Etymology: back-formation from horripilation
: to produce horripilation in (as by sudden fear)
a strange, wild horripilating tale — R.C.Lewis
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/haw rip"euh layt', ho-/, v.t., horripilated, horripilating.
to produce horripilation on.
[1615-25; < L horripilatus (ptp. of horripilare to become bristly). See HORRIFY, PILE3, -ATE1]
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horripˈilate transitive verb and intransitive verb
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Main Entry: ↑horripilation
Useful english dictionary. 2012.