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[ groo -suh m ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈgru səm / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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adjective causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly: the site of a gruesome murder.
full of or causing problems; distressing: a gruesome day at the office.
Origin of gruesome 1560–70; obsolete grue to shudder (cognate with German grauen, Dutch gruwen ) + -some1
OTHER WORDS FROM gruesome grue·some·ly, adverb grue·some·ness, noun un·grue·some, adjective Words nearby gruesome grue, gruel, grueling, gruelling, Gruenberg, gruesome , gruff, gruffy, grugru, gruiform, grum
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Example sentences from the Web for gruesome For some, the joyride can veer from titillating—think Goldshire, the sexy World of Warcraft town beloved by erotic role-players, or the thrill you get from making a nasty joke in Cards Against Humanity—to genuinely gruesome .
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He said a perfect example is a gruesome image of a teenage girl whose head has been blown off.
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Reports describe a gruesome scene of “almost unspeakable horror” with “bodies everywhere, organs splayed out.”
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These gruesome discoveries checked the singing and laughter, and for a while the men worked in silence.
But the interior of the laboratory displayed no gruesome scene.
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It was a gruesome picture, for, even when he was invisible, it seemed to Fred he could see the gleam of those eyes fixed upon him.
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Another, followed by fully twenty other savages, their gruesome faces showing surprise and bewilderment at sight of the youths.
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If only she had waited five or ten minutes more before she started back into that gruesome cave.
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British Dictionary definitions for gruesome adjective inspiring repugnance and horror; ghastly
Derived forms of gruesome gruesomely , adverb gruesomeness , noun Word Origin for gruesome C16: originally Northern English and Scottish; see grue , -some 1
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