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grim
/ɡɹɪm/
noun
Specter, ghost, haunting spirit
verb
To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to.
adjective
Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding
"Life was grim in many northern industrial towns."
Rigid and unrelenting
"His grim determination enabled him to win."
Ghastly or sinister
"A grim castle overshadowed the village."
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