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Definition of Gross out
1. Verb. Fill with distaste. "This spoilt food disgusts me"
Generic synonyms: Excite, Stimulate, Stir
Specialized synonyms: Nauseate, Sicken, Turn One's Stomach
Derivative terms: Disgust, Repellant, Repellant, Repellent, Repulsive, Repulsive
2. Verb. Lose one's nerve. "When he saw the accident, he freaked out"
Definition of Gross out
1. Verb. to sicken ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gross Out
Literary usage of Gross out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"Rents are often but not usually paid in kind, by division of the produce, the
landlord receiving from one-fourth to one-half of the gross out-turn. ..."
2. Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeal [1876-1900]. by Ontario Court of Appeal, James Stewart Tupper, Richard Scougall Cassels, Law Society of Upper Canada (1893)
"Then assuming that had the money been paid into Court there was power to allow
a sum in gross, out of it, to the tenant for life, in lieu of her estate in ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1882)
"... and volatile out of fixed ; subtile out of gross, and gross out of subtile ;
some things to ascend and make the upper terrestrial juices, rivers, ..."
4. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1915)
"... and volatile out of fixed, subtle out of gross, and gross out of subtle, some
things to ascend and make the upper terrestrial juices, rivers, ..."
5. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1883)
"... and volatile out of fixed, subtile out of gross, and gross out of subtile;
some things to ascend and make the upper terrestrial juices, rivers, ..."
6. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1893)
"... generating fluids out of solids, fixed things out of volatile, and volatile
out of fixed, subtile out of gross, and gross out of subtile Thus, perhaps, ..."