"ghastful" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English gastful, equivalent to ghast + -ful. See ghastly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more ghastful",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most ghastful",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1922, E. R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros:",
          "text": "Very desolate was that valley, having a dark aspect and a ghastful, such as a man might look for in the infernal glens of Pyriphlegethon or Acheron.",
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        "Causing fear; terrifying."
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        "(archaic) Causing fear; terrifying."
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          "ref": "1716, Samuel Wesley, The history of the Old and New Testament attempted in verse, page 13:",
          "text": "Th' Almighty anſwers — \"I my ſelf will place\n\"The dreadful Stains of Murther on the Face,\n\"That all may ſhun thy Crimes and Fate. — He ſaid,\nThe Caitiff heard, with ghaſtful Looks he fled.",
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        "Terrified, frightened."
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          "frightened"
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        "(archaic) Terrified, frightened."
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      "word": "gastful"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "gashful"
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English gastful, equivalent to ghast + -ful. See ghastly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more ghastful",
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        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most ghastful",
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        "superlative"
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        "(archaic) Causing fear; terrifying."
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          "text": "Th' Almighty anſwers — \"I my ſelf will place\n\"The dreadful Stains of Murther on the Face,\n\"That all may ſhun thy Crimes and Fate. — He ſaid,\nThe Caitiff heard, with ghaſtful Looks he fled.",
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        "(archaic) Terrified, frightened."
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