EGAVE

grue

About 0.07 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To be frightened; also, to shudder with fear; to quake, to tremble.
  2. noun A shiver, a shudder.
  3. noun Any byproduct of a gruesome event, such as gore, viscera, entrails, blood and guts.
    The butcher was covered in the accumulated grue of a hard day's work
  4. noun A fictional man-eating predator that dwells in the dark.
  5. adjective Of an object, green when first observed before a specified time or blue when first observed after that time.
  6. adjective Of a single color inclusive of both green and blue as different shades, used in translations from languages such as Old Welsh and Old Chinese that did not always distinguish between green and blue.
  7. noun The property of being green when first observed before a specified time or blue when first observed after that time.
  8. noun A single color inclusive of both green and blue as different shades, used in translations from languages such as Old Welsh and Old Chinese that did not always distinguish between green and blue.

Similar words

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