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
Valerie Bertinelli isn’t grossed out by a little dog slobber.
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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
Darcey continued heaving in the car, which left Georgi grossed out.
—Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
Eventually, you get grossed out by the person.
—Tom Roland, Billboard, 15 Aug. 2025
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
Darcey continued heaving in the car, which left Georgi grossed out.
—Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
Eventually, you get grossed out by the person.
—Tom Roland, Billboard, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grossed out
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Many Americans are rightfully disgusted by recent abuses of the pardon power to reward allies and exempt the president from the rule of law.—
Bernadette Meyler,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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Ana-María Saíz-Molinar, 20, a Chandler resident and organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, said she was disgusted by the latest death at the hands of federal agents.—
Rey Covarrubias Jr,
AZCentral.com,
24 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Only 20 of the 789 people sickened with measles received the full two-dose vaccine.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
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Fourteen people were sickened in a 2016 outbreak in California.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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For reasons that are quite possibly too unbearable to contemplate, a large group of American voters was not repulsed by such slander—they were actually aroused by it—and our politics have not been the same.—
Jeffrey Goldberg,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
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Nicole is the kind of wife who moves out of her father’s home into her husband’s home, and who has been taught to be repulsed by the mushroom spores covering her body, just like all the women in their community.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Jan. 2026
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The unconscionable treatment of maids in Alma’s era finds uncomfortable parallels in the 1980s, when Angelika is both appalled and intrigued by the leering looks of her uncle Uwe (Konstantin Lindhorst).—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2026
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Jefferson—the original originalist—would have been appalled at some of our recent Supreme Court decisions.—
The Atlantic,
The Atlantic,
13 Jan. 2026
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Viewers of Bridgerton are still likely, and rightfully, going to be put off by Benedict’s offer.—
Savannah Walsh,
Vanity Fair,
30 Jan. 2026
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Leaving clean laundry in the dryer or hamper only puts off a chore until later, keeps clean clothes from its proper place, and also risks wrinkles or someone accidentally mistaking it for dirty laundry instead.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
29 Jan. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Grossed out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grossed%20out. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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