grossed out; grossing out; grosses out
: to offend, insult, or disgust by something gross
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Examples of gross-out in a Sentence
Verb
that dead frog in our driveway grosses me out—can you get rid of it?
Recent Examples on the Web
The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
Instead this tangy and terrifying agricultural extravaganza is peppered with gross-out torture that leans heavy into freaky food humor while slow-cooking its wildly inhumane kills.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 11 Oct. 2024
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
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Noun
The film contains one of the great gross-out scenes of all time, in which Adjani has a bloody, violent miscarriage in a Berlin subway station and slams her body around as if in the throes of an exorcism.
—The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
Instead this tangy and terrifying agricultural extravaganza is peppered with gross-out torture that leans heavy into freaky food humor while slow-cooking its wildly inhumane kills.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 11 Oct. 2024
Verb
Properly grossed out, the group wanders back to lunch.
—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
See all Example Sentences for gross-out
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“Gross-out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gross-out. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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