grisly: [OE] Middle English had a verb grise ‘be terrified’, which points back via an unrecorded Old English *grīsan to a West Germanic *grīdenoting ‘fear, terror’, from which grisly would have been formed. Dutch has the parallel formation grijzelijk. In 1900, the Oxford English Dictionary described grisly as ‘now only arch and lit’, but since then its fortunes have recovered strongly, and it is now firmly part of the general language.
grisly (adj.)
Old English grislic (in compounds) "horrible, dreadful," from root of grisan "to shudder, fear," a general Germanic word (cognates: Old Frisian grislik "horrible," Middle Dutch grisen "to shudder," Dutch griezelen, German grausen "to shudder, fear," Old High German grisenlik "horrible;" of unknown origin; Watkins connects it with the PIE root *ghrei- "to rub," on notion of "to grate on the mind" (see chrism). See also gruesome, to which it probably is connected in some way. Related: Grisliness.
例文
1. Robbing graves is grisly .
墓泥棒は恐ろしい。
2.But everybody was talking，and intent upon the grisly spectacle before them.
でもみんな話していて、目の前のこの惨状に注目しています。
3.If anybody spoke of that grisly matter，I was all ears in a moment.
誰かその恐ろしいことを話したら、私はすぐに耳を傾けます。
4.EXMP：Houses were dark and grisly under the blank，cold sky.
空が寂しく寒い空の下で、家がぼんやりしていて怖い。
5.Vladimir did not fail，but success a grisly surprise.