"someone's blood runs cold" meaning in English

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        "One feels a physical shock upon realizing a direct threat to one's life, similar to the loss of blood in the brain. It affects the entire body for a few minutes, but does not cause the person to lose consciousness."
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          "ref": "1891, H. Rider Haggard, chapter 13, in Nada the Lily:",
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          "ref": "1908, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 9, in The Magician:",
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          "text": "His \"blood runs cold\" imagining the wrath of Weinstein.",
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          "text": "Here, he read of dreadful crimes that made the blood run cold.",
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          "ref": "1897, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 7, in Liza of Lambeth, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published [1921], →OCLC:",
          "text": "\"Why, it mikes yer blood run cold: they 'ang a man on the stige; oh, it mide me creep all over!\"",
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          "ref": "1914, Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Man on the Train:",
          "text": "\"It just makes my blood run cold to read about it. And to think that the man who did it is still around the country somewhere—plotting other murders.\"",
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