HAIR-RAISING

Meaning of HAIR-RAISING in English

/hair"ray'zing/ , adj.

terrifying or horrifying: We had a hair-raising brush with death.

[ 1895-1900 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

HAIR-RAISING — adjective Date: 1900 causing terror, excitement, or astonishment , ~ly adverb
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
HAIR-RAISING — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ adjective : making the hair stand on end: a. : causing fear or shock : terrifying have listened to …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HAIR-RAISING — adjective Date: 1900 : causing terror, excitement, or astonishment hair-raising stories • hair-rais·ing·ly -ziŋ-lē adverb
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
HAIR-RAISING — Pronunciation: - ˌ r ā -zi ŋ Function: adjective Date: 1900 : causing terror, excitement, or astonishment < hair-raising stories> …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
HAIR-RAISING — ■ adjective extremely alarming, astonishing, or frightening.
Concise Oxford English vocab
HAIR-RAISING — [hair-rais.ing] adj (1900): causing terror, excitement, or astonishment -- hair-rais.ing.ly adv
Merriam-Webster English vocab
HAIR-RAISING — hair-raising BrE AmE ˈheə ˌreɪz ɪŋ AmE \ ˈher- ˈhær-
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
HAIR-RAISING — adjective extremely frightening but often exciting : a hair-raising adventure / story
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HAIR-RAISING — ˈhair-raising BrE AmE adjective frightening and dangerous in a way that is exciting: a hair-raising car chase • • • …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
HAIR-RAISING — A hair-raising experience, event, or story is very frightening but can also be exciting. ...hair-raising rides at funfairs... ADJ
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HAIR-RAISING — A ~ experience, event, or story is very frightening but can also be exciting. ...~ rides at funfairs... ADJ
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
HAIR-RAISING — adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ After various hair-raising adventures in Afghanistan, Newcombe settled in Northern India. ▪ Jenny had …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
HAIR-RAISING — adj.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary Second Edition
HAIR-RAISING — adj. Hair-raising is used with these nouns: ↑ adventure , ↑ experience , ↑ tale
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
HAIR-RAISING — See ↑ FRIGHTENED/FRIGHTENING 5
Longman Activator English vocab
HAIR-RAISING — 25B6; adjective TERRIFYING, frightening, petrifying, alarming, chilling, horrifying, shocking, spine-chilling, blood-curdling, fearsome, nightmarish; eerie, sinister, weird, ghostly, unearthly; Scottish eldritch; …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
HAIR-RAISING — прил.; разг. жуткий, страшный, ужасный Syn : terrible, frightful (разговорное) страшный, ужасный - * accident ужасное происшествие - we had …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
HAIR-RAISING — a разг. страшный, ужасный hair-raising accident adventure - ужасное происшествие приключение we had a hair-raising brush with death today - …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
HAIR-RAISING — страшный, ужасный
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
HAIR RAISING — (a) страшный; ужасный
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
HAIR-RAISING — a разг. страшный, ужасный ~ accident [adventure] - ужасное происшествие [приключение] we had a ~ brush with death today - …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
HAIR-RAISING — a разг. страшный, ужасный hair-raising accident adventure - ужасное происшествие приключение we had a hair-raising brush with death today - …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
HAIR RAISING — страшный, ужасный
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
HAIR RAISING — страшный, ужасный
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
HAIR-RAISING — прил. ; разг. жуткий, страшный, ужасный Syn: terrible , frightful
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
HAIR-RAISING — прил.; разг. жуткий, страшный, ужасный Syn: terrible, frightful
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
HAIR-RAISING — _a. _собир. страшный, ужасный
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
HAIR-RAISING — a. собир. страшный, ужасный
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - редакция bed
HAIR-RAISING — страшный, ужасный
Англо-Русский дополнительный словарь
HAIR-RAISING — _a. _разг. страшный, ужасный
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера
HAIR-RAISING — прил.; разг. жуткий, страшный, ужасный Syn : terrible, frightful (разговорное) страшный, ужасный - * accident ужасное происшествие - we had …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
HAIR-RAISING — страшный
Англо-Русский словарь
HAIR — I. ˈha(a)](ə)r, ˈhe], ]ə noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English her, heer, hare, heir, hair, from …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
RAISING — ˈrāziŋ, -zēŋ noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, from gerund of raisen to raise 1. : the act or …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
RAISING — (n.) The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or …
Английский словарь Webster
RAISING — (n.) Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising.
Английский словарь Webster
RAISING — (n.) The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life.
Английский словарь Webster
RAISING — (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Raise
Английский словарь Webster
RAISING — ( p. pr. & vb. n. ) of Raise
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
RAISING — ( n. ) The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
RAISING — ( n. ) The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
RAISING — ( n. ) Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
RAISING — /ray"zing/ , n. Ling. a rule of transformational grammar that shifts the subject or object of an embedded clause into …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
HAIR — — hairlike , adj. /hair/ , n. 1. any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
RAISING — n. elevating; lifting up; recruitment of funds, collecting of money
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
HAIR — noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hǣr; akin to Old High German hār hair Date: before …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
RAISING — p.pr. & ·vb.n. of raise. 2. raising ·noun the act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to …
Webster English vocab
HAIR — noun a haircloth. 2. hair ·noun a spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm. 3. hair ·noun any very small …
Webster English vocab
HAIR — [hair] n, often attrib [ME, fr. OE haer; akin to OHG har hair] (bef. 12c) 1 a: a slender threadlike …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
HAIR — in mammals, the characteristic threadlike outgrowths of the outer layer of the skin (epidermis) that form an animal's coat, or …
Britannica English vocabulary
RAISING — / ˈreɪzɪŋ; NAmE / noun [ U , sing. ] the act of raising sth : consciousness raising a raising …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HAIR — / heə(r); NAmE her/ noun 1. [ U , C ] the substance that looks like a mass of fine …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HAIR — hair S1 W1 /heə $ her/ BrE AmE noun [ Word Family: noun : ↑ hair , ↑ hairiness ; …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
HAIR — n. 1 a any of the fine threadlike strands growing from the skin of mammals, esp. from the human head. …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
HAIR — n. 1 a any of the fine threadlike strands growing from the skin of mammals, esp. from the human head. …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
HAIR — n.1 a any of the fine threadlike strands growing from the skin of mammals, esp. from the human head. b …
Oxford English vocab
HAIR — ( hairs) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. Your hair is the …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HAIR — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a hair appointment (= to have your hair cut ) ▪ I’d like to make …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
HAIR — [noun] - the mass of thin threadlike structures on the head of a person, or any of these structures that …
Cambridge English vocab
RAISING — Synonyms and related words : addition, adjunct, aggrandizement, ampliation, amplification, apotheosis, apprenticeship, architecture, ascent, assembly, assumption, augmentation, barmy, basic training, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
HAIR — See: CURL ONE'S HAIR, GET GRAY HAIR or GET GRAY, GIVE GRAY HAIR, HANG BY A THREAD or HANG BY …
Slang English vocab
HAIR — n. 25B6; noun her thick black hair : HEAD OF HAIR, shock of hair, mane, mop; locks, tresses, curls, ringlets. …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
RAISING — n. consciousness ~
The Bbi Combinatory Dictionary of English - A Guide to Word Combinations
HAIR — See: CURL ONE'S HAIR, GET GRAY HAIR or GET GRAY, GIVE GRAY HAIR, HANG BY A THREAD or HANG BY …
Словарь английских идиом

Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary

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