"grewsome" meaning in English

See grewsome in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more grewsome [comparative], most grewsome [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} grewsome (comparative more grewsome, superlative most grewsome)
  1. Obsolete spelling of gruesome. Tags: alt-of, obsolete Alternative form of: gruesome
    Sense id: en-grewsome-en-adj--OBKTTtb Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1895, Henry Seton Merriman, The Sowers:",
          "text": "It was rather a grewsome scene.",
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        {
          "ref": "1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “The Battle of the Sand-belt”, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, →OCLC, page 560:",
          "text": "True, there were the usual night-sounds of the country—the whir of night-birds, the buzzing of insects, the barking of distant dogs, the mellow lowing of far-off kine—but these didn't seem to break the stillness, they only intensified it, and added a grewsome melancholy to it into the bargain.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1900, Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie:",
          "text": "His voice was hoarse and his unkempt head only added to its grewsome quality.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1909, Cleveland Moffett, chapter 19, in Through the Wall:",
          "text": "And various grewsome objects, a card case of human skin, and the twisted scarf used by a strangler.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1918, Randall Parrish, Wolves of the Sea:",
          "text": "I sprang back, giving utterance to a cry, which brought Watkins to me, and the two of us stared at the grewsome object and then about into the wavering shadows.",
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