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Meaning of make someone's flesh creep | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2

Definitions

To disgust or frighten someone.

Examples

“I can't bear snakes. They make my flesh creep.”

“[…] we all three enter'd the Gate of the Palace between two Rows of Guards, armed and dreſſed after a very antick manner, and ſomething in their Countenances that made my Fleſh creep with a Horror I cannot expreſs.”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

make someone's hair stand on end make someone's head spin make someone's jaw drop make someone's skin crawl make someone's skin creep make someone's teeth itch