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skin-crawling

skin-crawling adjective: horrifying or nauseating, so as to cause a creeping sensation in a person's skin.

Adjective

skin-crawling (comparative more skin-crawling, superlative most skin-crawling)

  1. Horrifying or nauseating, so as to cause a creeping sensation in a person's skin.
    Synonyms:
    flesh-crawling

Synonyms of skin-crawling

Forms of skin-crawling

comparativemore skin-crawling
superlativemost skin-crawling

Questions about skin-crawling

What does skin-crawling mean?
Skin-crawling means horrifying or nauseating, so as to cause a creeping sensation in a person's skin.
What part of speech is skin-crawling?
Skin-crawling is an adjective.

Words near skin-crawling in the dictionary

  1. skin virgins
  2. skin wool
  3. skin worm
  4. skin worms
  5. skin-art
  6. skin-crawling
  7. skin-deep
  8. skin-dive
  9. skin-dived
  10. skin-diver
  11. skin-divers

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