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English Dictionary: grisly	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for grisly
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
grisly adj shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen" Synonym(s): ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Grisly \Gris"ly\, a. [OE, grisly, grislich, AS. grislic, gryslic, fr. gr[?]san to shudder; cf. OD. grijselick horrible, OHG. grisenl?ch, and also AS. gre?san to frighten, and E. gruesome.] Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter. [bd]Grisly to behold.[b8] --Chaucer. A man of grisly and stern gravity. --Robynson (More's Utopia). {Grisly bear}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Grizzly}.