creepify

Verb

creepify (third-person singular simple present creepifies, present participle creepifying, simple past and past participle creepified)

1. (informal, transitive) To make creepy; to make annoying, unpleasant, or mildly threatening.
   • Singer Layne Staley’s dark words further creepify Alice’s sound.1993 July, Lorraine Ali, “Alice in Chains”, in SPIN, volume 9, number 4, Camouflage Associates, page 45
   • McCloy had the power to say yes, but said no / a no that creepifies his name in the time-track2000, Ed Sanders, America: A History in Verse, Volume 2: 1940-1961, David R. Godine (publisher), page 95
2. (informal, transitive) To creep out, to give (someone) the creeps.
   • But the Gun Dude ends up creepifying me when he tells me to hurry because, ever since the gun ban, the assault weapons have been "selling like hot cakes."2002, Harmon Leon, The Harmon Chronicles, ECW Press, →ISBN, page 126
   • I know I’m at the right place when I see 5 guys pushing a broken down van into the Café Risque parking lot (there’s ample trucker parking, but the prospect of free trucker showers creepifies me).2007, Harmon Leon, National Lampoon Road Trip USA: All the Places Your Dad Never Stopped At, National Lampoon, page 295