grewsome

[ groo-suhm ]

/ ˈgru səm /

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adjective

gruesome.

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OTHER WORDS FROM grewsome

grew·some·ly, adverbgrew·some·ness, noun

Words nearby grewsome

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How to use grewsome in a sentence

Whether it was too grewsome for their taste or whether there was some other reason, Gibbs tried hard to find out.
In the Onyx Lobby|Carolyn Wells
Above the entrance—grewsome and realistic spectacle—is poor St. Lawrence broiling away on his stone gridiron!
Italian Days and Ways|Anne Hollingsworth Wharton
And various grewsome objects, a card case of human skin, and the twisted scarf used by a strangler.
Through the Wall|Cleveland Moffett
From time to time they caught the grewsome head by the hair and shook it violently, shouting, Who-oo-oo!
The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon From Ifugao to Kalinga|Cornelis De Witt Willcox

The narrator had heard this grewsome tale from his grandmother, who said that she had seen the hole.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, July 1899|Various

British Dictionary definitions for grewsome

grewsome

/ (ˈɡruːsəm) /

adjective

an archaic or US spelling of gruesome

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