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Adjective: gross-out
Usage: informal
  1. Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
    "the town's gross-out smell was from the factory nearby";
    - disgusting, disgustful [archaic], foul, loathly [literary], loathsome, repellent, repellant, revolting, wicked, yucky [informal], loathful [archaic], yukky [informal], sickening, nauseating, vile
Verb: gross out  grows awt
Usage: informal
  1. Fill with distaste
    "His table manners grossed out the other diners";
    - disgust, revolt, repel
     
  2. Lose one's nerve
    "When he saw the accident, he grossed out";
    - freak out [informal], freak

Derived forms: grossing out, grossed out, grosses out

See also: distasteful, gut-wrenching, offensive, unsavory [US], unsavoury [Brit, Cdn]

Type of: excite, panic, stimulate, stir

Encyclopedia: Gross out