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CREEPS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)
Sense 2
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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb creep
