spine-tingling
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- adjective
- /ˈspaɪnˌtɪŋɡlɪŋ/
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escalofriante
- As the roller coaster climbed higher, the spine-tingling anticipation kept us on the edge of our seats.
- a spine-tingling moment
- a spine-tingling experience
- the most spine-tingling
Examples
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It was a spine-tingling moment, one of many in the night.
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The spine-tingling suspense and scenes of the kids being attacked by everything from their own toys (what better than a clown?) to a tree in their yard took the regular horror tropes to a whole other level.
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Many of their experiences were extremely different, yet left the same spine-tingling feeling for each of the siblings.
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And that moment in the story, filmed in that fashion, was just spine-tingling.
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Defense lawyers, however, find one new paragraph especially spine-tingling:
Academic text (2003) -
This place is spine-tingling.
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And then they hear the most gut-wrenching, spine-tingling, teeth-shattering ROAR ever.
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More spine-tingling thrills, more bone-crushing terror than you have ever seen before now, in The Corpse Grinders.
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An exchange that sums this all up and also happens to be one of my favorite moments of the night came when Megyn Kelly goes to Rove and says: "Is this just math that you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better, or is this real?" The venom in her voice was spine-tingling.
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The spine-tingling atmosphere of the haunted house left everyone feeling a mix of excitement and fear.
Synonyms
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Making you feel very excited, like on a fast roller coaster
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Makes people feel a sudden, strong excitement
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Very cold or scary
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Making you feel very scared or worried
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Making you feel afraid or nervous
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That makes you shiver with fear
Causing strong fear or disgust that makes you shiver
Making someone feel very afraid
Antonyms
How Thrilling
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- Informal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Spine-tingling paints a small picture: spine means your backbone and tingle means a 'small, sharp feeling'. So, something spine-tingling is like a little feeling running down your spine, and that's why it makes you feel excited or scared.