CREEPS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A feeling of fear and revulsion

Example:

he gives me the creeps

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("creeps" is a kind of...):

fear; fearfulness; fright (an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight))

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Meaning:

A disease of cattle and sheep attributed to a dietary deficiency; characterized by anemia and softening of the bones and a slow stiff gait

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("creeps" is a kind of...):

animal disease (a disease that typically does not affect human beings)

Present simple (third person singular) of the verb creep