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/ɡɹuː/ · verb
(intransitive, archaic except Northern England, Scotland) To be frightened; also, to shudder with fear; to quake, to tremble..
["]I would have done Mr. Mordaunt's bidding too," he added, relaxing from his note of defiance, into the deferential whining tone with which he cajoled his customers, "if he hadna made use of profane oaths which made my very flesh grue, and caused me, in some sort, to forget myself."
A Grue of Ice
Upon all others the sight of Alison, were it but for a moment, cast a cold grue, not to be remembered without terror.
A cold grue went through me—I was unable to touch such a hand.
The butcher was covered in the accumulated grue of a hard day's work
There was grue everywhere after the accident
1990, John DeChancie, Castle War! Incarnadine had to be quick with the sword. Huge wings flapped in time with explosions of grue, and the stink of burnt flesh and feathers filled the air.
Carrie is Cinderella in the body language of menstrual blood and raging hormones. King’s adolescent joy in grimaces and groans, the Mad magazine humor, and the staple of “grue” hardly need mentioning.
Use grue when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Grue means (intransitive, archaic except Northern England, Scotland) To be frightened; also, to shudder with fear; to quake, to tremble..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
["]I would have done Mr. Mordaunt's bidding too," he added, relaxing from his note of defiance, into the deferential whining tone with which he cajoled his customers, "if he hadna made use of profane oaths which made my very flesh grue, and caused me, in some sort, to forget myself."
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