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creep out

Verb

Meaning

creep out (third-person singular simple present creeps out, present participle creeping out, simple past and past participle creeped out)

(informal, transitive) To make uncomfortable or afraid; to give someone the creeps.
That janitor who's always talking about blood creeps me out.

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Sir, the insolence of wealth will creep out. Samuel Johnson

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable. Theodore Parker

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