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hair-raiser

hair-raiser noun: something which scares or causes fear; something hair-raising.

Noun

hair-raiser (plural hair-raisers)

  1. (idiomatic) Something which scares or causes fear; something hair-raising.

hair-raiser meaning in Tamil

hair-raiser in Tamil

பயங்கரக் கதை

Forms of hair-raiser

pluralhair-raisers
alternative formhair raiser

Origin of hair-raiser

From hair-raising + -er.

Questions about hair-raiser

What does hair-raiser mean?
Hair-raiser means something which scares or causes fear; something hair-raising.
What is hair-raiser in Tamil?
Hair-raiser in Tamil is பயங்கரக் கதை. See Hair-raiser meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hair-raiser?
Hair-raiser is a noun.
What is the plural of hair-raiser?
The plural of hair-raiser is hair-raisers.

Words near hair-raiser in the dictionary

  1. hair-nets
  2. hair-on-fire
  3. hair-pipe
  4. hair-pipes
  5. hair-pulling disorder
  6. hair-raiser
  7. hair-raisers
  8. hair-raising
  9. hair-raisingly
  10. hair-salt
  11. hair-salts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hair-raiser (page history and authors); hair-raiser (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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