Definitions for grewsome

grewsome grew·some

Spelling: [groo-suh m]
IPA: /ˈgru səm/

Grewsome is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 215 anagrams from letters in grewsome (eegmorsw).

Definitions for grewsome

adjective

  1. gruesome.
  2. causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly:
  3. full of or causing problems; distressing:

Origin of grewsome

1560-70; obsolete grue to shudder (cognate with German grauen, Dutch gruwen) + -some1

Examples for grewsome

This grewsome horseplay in Europe's front yard would start it.

In his throat was an odd, half-suppressed cry, grewsome to hear.

Had she denied everything I might have fancied it all a grewsome dream.

grewsome as it might look, Queen City was now, indeed, a place of refuge.

Cardinal Lorraine is said to have gone by this grewsome, subterranean passage.

Nor are ordinary death-beds the saddest or most grewsome scenes.

Every fourth or fifth residence yielded its toll to the grewsome lure.

But it was the cemetery that presented the most grewsome sight.

These things are grewsome to me, and I fain would forget them.

Gory and grewsome,—he is the mainstay Of the historic novel of to-day.

Word Value for grewsome
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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