growse

growse

English

Etymology

Compare gruesome and German grausen (“to make shudder, shiver”).

Verb

growse (third-person singular simple present growses, present participle growsing, simple past and past participle growsed)

1. (Britain, dialectal, obsolete) To shiver; to have chills.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for growse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• Gerows, growes