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gruesome

or ·dz

[ groo-suhm ]

adjective

  1. causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly:

    the site of a gruesome murder.

  2. full of or causing problems; distressing:

    a gruesome day at the office.



gruesome

/ ˈɡːə /

adjective

  1. inspiring repugnance and horror; ghastly
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈܱdzԱ, noun
  • ˈܱdz, adverb
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ܱsdz· adverb
  • ܱsdz·Ա noun
  • ܲ·ܱsdz adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of gruesome1

1560–70; obsolete grue to shudder (cognate with German grauen, Dutch gruwen ) + -some 1
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of gruesome1

C16: originally Northern English and Scottish; see grue , -some 1
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In the episode, he says this is the "most gruesome thing" he has ever been a part of.

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Doo-man can’t work to the best of his ability unless he eats, even if it means desensitizing himself to life’s gruesome truths.

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“Trump’s gutting of the Chuckwalla and Sáttítla national monuments is a gruesome attack on our system of public lands,” said Ileene Anderson, California desert director at the Center for Biological Diversity.

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For many, however, the worst part of the gruesome discovery is that local police raided the ranch, near the village of Teuchitlán, as recently as last September.

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“The Monkey” wears the skin of one of these gruesome slashers, with kills trying to raise a viewer’s pulse with a little bit of innovation.

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