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- noun A person who fears
spiders .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Call me an arachnophobe, is John Goodman in the house? but I'm not a fan of the little guys.
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In extreme cases, an arachnophobe can break out in a sweat while merely looking at photos of spiders.
John Feffer: The Lies of Islamophobia: The Three Unfinished Wars of the West Against the Rest John Feffer 2010
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In extreme cases, an arachnophobe can break out in a sweat while merely looking at photos of spiders.
John Feffer: The Lies of Islamophobia: The Three Unfinished Wars of the West Against the Rest John Feffer 2010
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Occasionally, James's own fears surface – as in The Ash Tree, which could only have been written by an arachnophobe.
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In extreme cases, an arachnophobe can break out in a sweat while merely looking at photos of spiders.
John Feffer: The Lies of Islamophobia: The Three Unfinished Wars of the West Against the Rest John Feffer 2010
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Dewey: I'm a bit of an arachnophobe myself, and yet I had no problems with Charlotte.
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The thirty-year-old man is an arachnophobe, and he is my husband.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: All in the Family Jack Canfield 2009
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The thirty-year-old man is an arachnophobe, and he is my husband.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: All in the Family Jack Canfield 2009
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I'm an arachnophobe spiders and scorps freak me out big time but I would totally have a piece of that cake.
Fear Factor, CW Style Jen 2009
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The thirty-year-old man is an arachnophobe, and he is my husband.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: All in the Family Jack Canfield 2009
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