"make someone's blood run cold" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-make someone's blood run cold.ogg [Australia] Forms: makes someone's blood run cold [present, singular, third-person], making someone's blood run cold [participle, present], made someone's blood run cold [participle, past], made someone's blood run cold [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|make<,,made> someone's blood run cold}} make someone's blood run cold (third-person singular simple present makes someone's blood run cold, present participle making someone's blood run cold, simple past and past participle made someone's blood run cold)
  1. (idiomatic) To cause a person to feel fear, horror, dread, or strong foreboding; to chill. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Fear Synonyms: frighten, make the blood run cold Related terms: one's blood runs cold, make someone's blood boil Translations (cause a person to feel fear): pelottaa (Finnish), kauhistuttaa (Finnish), kammoksuttaa (Finnish), foutre les chocottes [colloquial] (French), foutre les jetons [colloquial] (French), faire peur (French), glacer le sang (French), einem das Blut in den Adern gefrieren lassen (German), gelare il sangue (Italian), likt kāda asinīm sastingt dzīslās (Latvian), gelar o sangue (Portuguese), кровь застыла, сердце упало в пятки (krovʹ zastyla, serdce upalo v pjatki) (Russian)

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      "sense": "cause a person to feel fear",
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      "sense": "cause a person to feel fear",
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