1. to cause the hair to stand on end; to produce a sensation of horror or dread that makes one's hair stand up
Usage: formal or literary; often used in passive voice or reflexive form

Examples

• The ghost story was designed to horripilate the audience.
• She felt horripilated by the eerie sounds in the abandoned house.
• The gruesome details of the crime horripilated everyone in the courtroom.
• His spine-tingling narration horripilated the listeners.
• The thought of the accident horripilated her for weeks afterward.