grisly
Horrifyingly repellentHorrifyingly repellent; gruesome, terrifying.
» The murder scene was a grisly sight.
Der Tatort bot einen grauenvollen Anblick. — cost
darinmex · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 sensesHorrifyingly repellent; gruesome, terrifying.
The photographs of the killings depict a grisly scene.
grässlich
отврати́тельныйotvratítelʹnyj
- shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
Examples
8 sentencesThe murder scene was a grisly sight.
deDer Tatort bot einen grauenvollen Anblick. — cost
Police arrived at the grisly crime scene.
ruПолиция приехала на место страшного преступления. — marafon
deDie Polizei erreichte den grausigen Tatort. — Yorwba
Investigators started piecing together the grisly story.
Fadil will never forget the grisly find.
He shuddered with horror at the grisly sight.
ruОн содрогнулся в ужасе от гнусного зрелища. — carlosalberto
deEr schauderte vor Entsetzen bei dem grausigen Anblick. — carlosalberto
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English grisely, grysly, grissliȝ, griselich, grislich, from Old English grislFrom Middle English grisely, grysly, grissliȝ, griselich, grislich, from Old English grisliċ (“grisly, horrible; dreadful, horrid”), from grīsan (“to shudder with horror; to tremble, to be terrified; to make tremble, to terrify; to agrise, grise”) (unattested but implied in āgrīsan) + -lic (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘characteristic of, pertaining to’).
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