| adjective | 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 |
| adjective | gruesomely indicative of death or the dead | a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones|ghastly shrieks|the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs |
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