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gruesome adjective
/ˈgruː.səm/ adj Definition
extremely unpleasant and shocking, and usually dealing with death or injury
The newspaper article included a gruesome description of the murder.
gruesomely adverb
/ˈgruː.səm.li/ adv (Definition of gruesome adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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