make someone's flesh creep
make someone's flesh creep verb: to disgust or frighten someone.
Verb
make someone's flesh creep (third-person singular simple present makes someone's flesh creep, present participle making someone's flesh creep, simple past and past participle made someone's flesh creep)
- To disgust or frighten someone.
- 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.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Leaves Lagado, Arrives at Maldonada. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […]...
Forms of make someone's flesh creep
| third-person singular present | makes someone's flesh creep |
|---|---|
| present participle | making someone's flesh creep |
| past participle | made someone's flesh creep |
| past | made someone's flesh creep |
Questions about make someone's flesh creep
- What does make someone's flesh creep mean?
- Make someone's flesh creep means to disgust or frighten someone.
- What part of speech is make someone's flesh creep?
- Make someone's flesh creep is a verb.
- What is the past tense of make someone's flesh creep?
- The past tense of make someone's flesh creep is made someone's flesh creep.
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