gruesome

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Adjective

gruesome (comparative gruesomer, superlative gruesomest)

1. Repellently frightful and shocking; horrific or ghastly.
   • 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 6

     In the middle of the floor lay a skeleton, every vestige of flesh gone from the bones to which still clung the mildewed and moldered remnants of what had once been clothing. Upon the bed lay a similar gruesome thing, but smaller, while in a tiny cradle near-by was a third, a wee mite of a skeleton.

Translations

• French: horrible
• German: grauenhaft, grauenvoll
• Italian: orribile, raccapricciante
• Portuguese: medonho, horrendo, pavoroso
• Russian: омерзи́тельный
• Spanish: espantoso, truculento

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