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单词 gruesomely
释义
gruesomegrue‧some /ˈɡruːsəm/ ●○○ adjective Word Origin
WORD ORIGINgruesome
Origin:
1500-1600 grue ‘to shake (with fear)’ (14-19 centuries), from Middle Dutch gruwen
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a gruesome accident
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • But sitting through nearly 111 minutes of bloody crime scenes, test-tube shots and gruesome autopsy scenes is just unpleasant and boring.
  • Earlier in the day, they found more gruesome debris.
  • He begins his career as a boy with gruesome, bloody experiments on live animals.
  • He even remembered the gruesome details of the spelling bee he lost in front of the entire seventh grade.
  • I'd turn from gruesome Gilly into gorgeous, gracious, good, glorious Galadriel.
  • It wants us to live out that gruesome fantasy, to find out whether we could handle it.
  • The antique woodcuts, etchings, and contemporary photographs that illustrate the book are at once gruesome and riveting.
very unpleasant or shocking, and involving someone being killed or badly injured:  Police described it as a particularly gruesome attack. Spare me the gruesome details.gruesomely adverb
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