as in to disgust
to cause to feel disgust
that dead frog in our driveway grosses me out—can you get rid of it?
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Recent Examples of gross out
Properly grossed out, the group wanders back to lunch.
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Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 15 Oct. 2024
Plane mess: Stories about extremely disgusting airplanes have been grossing out travelers.
—Edward Russell, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
The Back-list: Dembe and Ressler are grossed out that Herbie pulled a print from the underside of a toilet seat, but that's called getting👏the👏job👏done👏.
—Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 29 May 2023
Of course, while some might be grossed out at the thought of going to see a carpet of living flies on a beach, van Breugel notes that these animals are doing something very few other creatures can do.
—Jason Bittel, Travel, 22 Jan. 2024
Brayden served up a charcuterie board of leaves and a beetroot, while Aaron, 29, scrounged up mushrooms and a frog, which grossed out the ladies.
—Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 18 July 2023
You might get grossed out by how much dirt and grime this cleaner pulls up from your carpets.
—Condé Nast, WIRED, 12 July 2023
Growing up, Marielle Williamson was grossed out by milk.
—Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
Every 17 years, the U.S. media feeds on stories about eating periodical cicadas, a surefire way to gross out readers, viewers and listeners.
—Washington Post, 25 May 2021
Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 15 Oct. 2024
Plane mess: Stories about extremely disgusting airplanes have been grossing out travelers.
—Edward Russell, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
The Back-list: Dembe and Ressler are grossed out that Herbie pulled a print from the underside of a toilet seat, but that's called getting👏the👏job👏done👏.
—Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 29 May 2023
Of course, while some might be grossed out at the thought of going to see a carpet of living flies on a beach, van Breugel notes that these animals are doing something very few other creatures can do.
—Jason Bittel, Travel, 22 Jan. 2024
Brayden served up a charcuterie board of leaves and a beetroot, while Aaron, 29, scrounged up mushrooms and a frog, which grossed out the ladies.
—Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 18 July 2023
You might get grossed out by how much dirt and grime this cleaner pulls up from your carpets.
—Condé Nast, WIRED, 12 July 2023
Growing up, Marielle Williamson was grossed out by milk.
—Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
Every 17 years, the U.S. media feeds on stories about eating periodical cicadas, a surefire way to gross out readers, viewers and listeners.
—Washington Post, 25 May 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gross out
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The Republicans who rid us of Nixon in 1974 would be disgusted.Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
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Many of us today are disgusted by the identity politics and divisive rhetoric used so much now by those in government and in the media to polarize and control us in the pursuit of their self-interests.Letters to the Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2024
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But what was considered heroic in one era can repulse future generations.Elizabeth Blackwell, Longreads, 14 Nov. 2024
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Neither club emerges with any credit from the several days Gallagher spent in limbo in Madrid or training alone at Cobham, and the cold accounting calculations involved on both sides reflect ‘Big Football’ in 2024 in a way that understandably repulses many people.Liam Twomey, The Athletic, 21 Aug. 2024
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Farm workers who have been sickened on the job may have also been eye-level with infected animals.Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 26 Nov. 2024
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An American, two Danish tourists, and a 19-year old from Australia — Bianca Jones — have died, while multiple people were sickened in Vang Vieng, a town popular with backpackers and tourists in Laos, the Associated Press says.Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 21 Nov. 2024
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That kind of appalls me to think that people need not expect that of themselves.David Marchese Photograph by Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
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What appalls him now is a lack of accountability in Netanyahu’s government.David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
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“Gross out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gross%20out. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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