Gruesome and Wounded

Gruesome

Gruesome adjective - Extremely disturbing or repellent.

Wounded and gruesome are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wounded" instead an adjective "Gruesome".

Wounded

Wounded adjective - Suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle.
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Synonyms for Wounded

Gruesome and wounded are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Gruesome" instead an adjective "Wounded".

Nearby Words: wound, wounding

Both words in one sentence

  • Film / The Cabin in the Woods The stoner Marty is wounded and dragged offscreen by one of the Buckners to be killed, and the Controllers assume he died a gruesome death.
  • Western Animation / Liberty's Kids The show not only has characters die, but also wounded, sometimes in gruesome ways (though without a whole lot of blood).
  • People whose clothes are on fire and are presumably wounded or killed by said flames may appear here if there's no gruesome detail.
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