as in to disgust
to cause to feel disgust
that dead frog in our driveway grosses me out—can you get rid of it?
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Properly grossed out, the group wanders back to lunch.
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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
The Back-list: Dembe and Ressler are grossed out that Herbie pulled a print from the underside of a toilet seat, but that's called getting👏the👏job👏done👏.
—Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 29 May 2023
Of course, while some might be grossed out at the thought of going to see a carpet of living flies on a beach, van Breugel notes that these animals are doing something very few other creatures can do.
—Jason Bittel, Travel, 22 Jan. 2024
Brayden served up a charcuterie board of leaves and a beetroot, while Aaron, 29, scrounged up mushrooms and a frog, which grossed out the ladies.
—Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 18 July 2023
You might get grossed out by how much dirt and grime this cleaner pulls up from your carpets.
—Condé Nast, WIRED, 12 July 2023
Growing up, Marielle Williamson was grossed out by milk.
—Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
Every 17 years, the U.S. media feeds on stories about eating periodical cicadas, a surefire way to gross out readers, viewers and listeners.
—Washington Post, 25 May 2021
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
The Back-list: Dembe and Ressler are grossed out that Herbie pulled a print from the underside of a toilet seat, but that's called getting👏the👏job👏done👏.
—Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 29 May 2023
Of course, while some might be grossed out at the thought of going to see a carpet of living flies on a beach, van Breugel notes that these animals are doing something very few other creatures can do.
—Jason Bittel, Travel, 22 Jan. 2024
Brayden served up a charcuterie board of leaves and a beetroot, while Aaron, 29, scrounged up mushrooms and a frog, which grossed out the ladies.
—Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 18 July 2023
You might get grossed out by how much dirt and grime this cleaner pulls up from your carpets.
—Condé Nast, WIRED, 12 July 2023
Growing up, Marielle Williamson was grossed out by milk.
—Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
Every 17 years, the U.S. media feeds on stories about eating periodical cicadas, a surefire way to gross out readers, viewers and listeners.
—Washington Post, 25 May 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gross out
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Yet some of us in the audience, disgusted by the persistence of Nazism and anti-immigrant invective in the present, may well appreciate the force of McQueen’s rhetoric.Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
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The writer was disgusted with church policies of putting young women under control of male members and that one had repeatedly raped his charge and bragged about it.Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 30 Sep. 2024
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Thomas said she was immediately repulsed by Trump in 2016 and only remains a Republican now only to help shape the party's choices in primary elections.Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 28 Oct. 2024
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Yeah, there is nothing but sycophancy and repulsing his enemies.Leah Feiger, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024
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Last summer, for example, a red tide bloom released a neurotoxin called domoic acid that sickened sea lions and other marine mammals along the California coast, including in Los Angeles.Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
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McDonald’s announced Sunday that Quarter Pounders will again be on its menu at hundreds of its restaurants after testing ruled out beef patties as the source of the outbreak of E. coli poisoning tied to the popular burgers that killed one person and sickened at least 75 others across 13 states.Sarah Parvini, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2024
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That kind of appalls me to think that people need not expect that of themselves.David Marchese Photograph by Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
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What appalls him now is a lack of accountability in Netanyahu’s government.David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
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