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# gruesome

adjective (more gruesome, most gruesome)

«gruesome» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Horrible and disgusting, often involving blood, injury or death. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gruesome/#m1)

### In the lessons

tales and notes describe frightening events and creatures as gruesome

### Examples

- The film had a gruesome scene. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gruesome/#x1)
- The story told of a gruesome witch. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gruesome/#x2)
- The gruesome tale made us shiver. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gruesome/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «gruesome» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gruesome/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«gruesome» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/gruesome.html) on Mova free.