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Emotion & Feeling

ぞわっと

zowatto

Sudden creepy, eerie feeling

An instantaneous wave of creepiness or eeriness that makes your skin crawl. A sudden, unsettling sensation of something being wrong.

💡Used when entering a creepy place, hearing a strange noise at night, or sensing an eerie presence.

Example

誰もいないはずの部屋から物音がして、ぞわっとした。

I felt a creepy chill when I heard a noise from a room that should have been empty.

Quiz yourself

Walking through the abandoned hospital, I suddenly felt ___.

廃病院を歩いていると、突然___とした。

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