Vocabulary
Gruesome
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
causing repulsion or horror; grisly.
Urdu meaning
لرزہ خیز، ڈراﺅنا، ہولناک
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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TWO-and-a-half years of relentless slaughtering of Palestinian children, with complete impunity and in the most gruesome ways imaginable, seems to have desensitised the global citizenry to the horror of burying a child.
Dawn Editorials —
Shrouds of innocence
— 2026-03-05
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And yet, it ended in gruesome bloodshed.The question is: why?
Dawn Editorials —
Burning questions
— 2026-03-04
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Within minutes of Kirk`s shooting, footage of the gruesome killing was all over X as were rumours about the assassin.
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A killing in US
— 2025-09-13
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At some point, when empire`s atrocities become too great, the contradictions and hypocrisies dissolve entirely, as the empire implodes in a burst of honesty, and citizens step back to admire their own gruesome handiwork.
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Explaining Trump 2.0
— 2025-07-30
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In the gruesome footage, a young woman is shot down as several men look on.
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`Honour` kills
— 2025-07-22
Synonyms
grisly, ghastly, frightful, horrid, horrifying, fearful, hideous, macabre, spine-chilling
Curator example
“the most gruesome murder”
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