horripilate

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[1. horripilate] (verb) cause (someone's) hair to stand on end and to have goosebumps.

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  1. To produce horripilation in; cause to shrink or creep, as flesh. [Recent and rare.] Flesh made to creep by the utterance of such words as poets utter—flesh moved by an Idea, flesh horripilated by a Thought! L. Hearn, The Porcelain God.
  2. To have goose-flesh.

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