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bristle

English

  1. 🔊 a stiff hair
  2. 🔊 a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament)
  3. 🔊 react in an offended or angry manner
    “He bristled at her suggestion that he should teach her how to use the program”
  4. 🔊 rise up as in fear
    “The dog's fur bristled”
  5. 🔊 have or be thickly covered with or as if with bristles
    “bristling leaves”
  6. 🔊 be in a state of movement or action
    “The room abounded with screaming children”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 erizar to bristle

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