give someone the creeps
give someone the creeps verb: to give someone a feeling of uneasiness or mild fright.
Verb
give someone the creeps (third-person singular simple present gives someone the creeps, present participle giving someone the creeps, simple past gave someone the creeps, past participle given someone the creeps)
- To give someone a feeling of uneasiness or mild fright.
- Walking through the graveyard late at night really gives me the creeps.
- As for Leo, he did not altogether like it either, but ran his fingers through his yellow curls, and remarked that it gave him the creeps.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “‘Give Me a Black Goat!’”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 216
- Synonyms:
- creep someone out, give someone the heebie-jeebies, give someone the willies, spook someone, unnerve someone, give someone the collywobbles
give someone the creeps meaning in Bengali and Malayalam
give someone the creeps in Bengali
- কাউকে অস্বস্তি, হালকা ভয় পাওয়া
give someone the creeps in Malayalam
- repulse, repel, revolt
- ഈർച്ച ഉണ്ടാക്കുക, പുറകോട്ടു പായിക്കുക, പേടിപ്പിക്കുക, ഓക്കാനിപ്പിക്കുക, വെറുപ്പിക്കുക, അറപ്പുളവാക്കുക
Synonyms of give someone the creeps
- creep someone out
- give someone the heebie-jeebies
- give someone the willies
- spook someone
- unnerve someone
- give someone the collywobbles
Forms of give someone the creeps
| third-person singular present | gives someone the creeps |
|---|---|
| present participle | giving someone the creeps |
| past | gave someone the creeps |
| past participle | given someone the creeps |
Questions about give someone the creeps
- What does give someone the creeps mean?
- Give someone the creeps means to give someone a feeling of uneasiness or mild fright.
- What is give someone the creeps in Bengali?
- Give someone the creeps in Bengali is কাউকে অস্বস্তি, হালকা ভয় পাওয়া. See Give someone the creeps meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is give someone the creeps?
- Give someone the creeps is a verb.
- What is the past tense of give someone the creeps?
- The past tense of give someone the creeps is gave someone the creeps.
Words near give someone the creeps in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: give someone the creeps (page history and authors); give someone the creeps (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); give someone the creeps (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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