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make someone's hair stand on end
vs
terrify
make someone's hair stand on end
verb
To frighten or scare someone.
terrify
verb
To menace or intimidate.
To frighten greatly; to fill with terror.
How often have the words
make someone's hair stand on end
and
terrify
occurred in a corpus of books?
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