"make someone's skin crawl" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-make someone's skin crawl.ogg Forms: makes someone's skin crawl [present, singular, third-person], making someone's skin crawl [participle, present], made someone's skin crawl [participle, past], made someone's skin crawl [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|make<,,made> someone's skin crawl}} make someone's skin crawl (third-person singular simple present makes someone's skin crawl, present participle making someone's skin crawl, simple past and past participle made someone's skin crawl)
  1. (idiomatic) To frighten or disgust. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: heebie-jeebies, make someone's flesh creep, make someone's teeth itch Translations (to disturb, bother, frighten, disgust): borsódzik tőle a háta (Hungarian), мурашки по коже бегут (Russian)

Inflected forms

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