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Textual thesaurus for "gruesome"

(adj) grim, grisly, ghastly, sick, macabre

shockingly repellent; inspiring horror

ghastly wounds; the grim aftermath of the bombing; the grim task of burying the victims; a grisly murder; gruesome evidence of human sacrifice; macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages; macabre tortures conceived by madmen