Horripilate

Quick meaning: Horripilate is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To bristle in fear or horror; to have goose bumps or goose pimples.

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To bristle in fear or horror; to have goose bumps or goose pimples.

Example Sentences

When Hel shrugged and changed the subject diplomatically, the nape of Diamond's neck horripilated with embarrassment.

A cold wind had blown through his seven-year-old skin, bringing with it the age of reason, thrilling his bones, horripilating its way up his spine.

Miraculously, when he returned, […] no one had stolen, broken into, or vandalized the Saab: there it sat in all its silver magnificence on a lousy street in a rotten neighborhood, rainwater horripilating its voluptuous skin.

Phadampa Sangye gives us a brief characterization of the cremation grounds and the lands surrounding them in the introductory passage to Diamond-Songs of the Adepts, calling it "a region difficult for humans to travel, a village where ghouls and zombies wander, a place where the inhuman of the earth wander, the place of the action ḍākinīs, [where] Death's hair horripilates and the demons are dread-filled upon sight of it."

Word Forms

• horripilates
• horripilating
• horripilated

Synonyms for horripilate

Depending on context, synonyms include perscopate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include perscopate, shudder, agrise, forhare, trepidate, thrill.

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