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grossed out

verb

past tense of gross out
as in disgusted
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 grossed out So get put that shovel on your shoulders and try not to be too grossed out. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 13 July 2026 Gilda Radner first grossed out Jane Curtin with her iconic Weekend Update reporter with a geometric wig in 1977. — Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 9 May 2026 Moist may be the seminal example, but there are certainly other words that people get grossed out by. — Literary Hub, 21 Apr. 2026 Valerie Bertinelli isn’t grossed out by a little dog slobber. — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Dec. 2025 Keltner seems to be grossed out by his go-to smoothie as much as viewers. — Korin Miller, SELF, 17 Oct. 2025 Eventually, you get grossed out by the person. — Tom Roland, Billboard, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grossed out
  1. disgusted
  2. sickened
  3. repulsed
  4. appalled
  5. put off
Verb
  • There are a lot of reasons to be disgusted with the Cowboys for their season-opening stink fest.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Decent law-abiding Israelis living in Judea/Samaria are also disgusted by behavior of the few who violate civil law & Torah by violence & lawlessness.
    — Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of disgusted
Verb
  • In July, Taylor Farms de Mexico recalled all iceberg lettuce sourced in Mexico from 27 states following a cyclospora outbreak that has sickened 18,445 people since the beginning of May.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Thousands of people were sickened by foodborne illnesses this summer.
    — Dian Zhang, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of sickened
Verb
  • Young people just aren’t interested, partly because they’re repulsed by bodily fluids.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026
  • His recent comments didn’t favor the Browns fanbase, and many Cleveland fans seem viscerally repulsed by him.
    — Andy Behrens, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of repulsed
Verb
  • Mansur, who desperately longs to be reunited with his own mother, is appalled.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s ongoing satirical series at first appalled many viewers with its resolute political incorrectness and penchant for four-letter words from the mouths of babes, and that was nowhere more evident than in Cartman himself.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of appalled
Verb
  • School has been back in session for weeks and the summer temps are steadily dropping, which means that there’s no reason to put off a September cleanout any longer.
    — Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Analysts say the naira currency’s depreciation over the last three years, due to Nigeria’s economic policy revamp, highlights the macroeconomic risks that may put off investors in the economy, including in healthcare.
    — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of put off

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“Grossed out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grossed%20out. Accessed 19 Sep. 2026.

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