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grisly

adjective
🔊/ˈɡrɪzli/
🔊/ˈɡrɪzli/
[usually before noun]
(comparative grislier, superlative grisliest)
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  1. extremely unpleasant and frightening and usually connected with death and violence令人厌恶的；恐怖的；可怕的
    • a grisly crime可憎的罪行
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryGrisly is used with these nouns:
    • death
    • detail
    • discovery
    • …
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    Word OriginOld English grislic ‘terrifying’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch griezelig.