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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 Word Forms

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

Origin of gruesome1

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

Origin of gruesome1

C16: originally Northern English and Scottish; see grue , -some 1
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Disturbingly, two books were covered in his skin and part of the man's scalp, with ear included, was kept as a gruesome ornament.

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Joel’s death is a gruesome finale for a good man cut down by a rage he didn’t realize he sowed with his extreme violence.

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The film has a very distinct tone, from its 1970s European style imagery to fantasy sequences to some painfully funny and gruesome episodes of horror.

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While “Warfare” certainly doesn’t make combat look like anything more than gruesome violence, its last few minutes undercut the anti-war messaging and Garland and Mendoza’s apolitical stance.

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In 1983 Vargas Llosa was appointed president of a commission investigating the gruesome killing in a village in the Peruvian Andes of eight journalists, which became known as the Uchuraccay massacre.

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