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# gruesome

«gruesome» in Mova's school dictionary: **Horrible and disgusting, often involving blood, injury or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more gruesome, most gruesome)

### meaning for a pupil

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

### sense in the lessons

tales and notes describe frightening events and creatures as gruesome

### examples

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gruesome» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gruesome/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.