make someone's flesh creep

verb

To disgust or frighten someone.

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

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Meanings

verbmake 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)

present singular third person makes someone's flesh creep · participle present making someone's flesh creep · participle past made someone's flesh creep · past made someone's flesh creep

  1. To disgust or frighten someone.

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

    1 more example

    […] 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: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), page 97

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
make someone's flesh crawl
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