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grizzle
1[griz-uhl]
verb (used with or without object)
to make or become gray or partly gray.
adjective
gray; grayish; devoid of hue.
noun
gray or partly gray hair.
a gray wig.
grizzle
2[griz-uhl]
verb (used without object)
to complain; whimper; whine.
to laugh or grin in mockery; sneer.
grizzle
1/ ˈɡɪə /
verb
to make or become grey
noun
a grey colour
grey or partly grey hair
a grey wig
grizzle
2/ ˈɡɪə /
verb
(esp of a child) to fret; whine
to sulk or grumble
Other Word Forms
- grizzler noun
- ˈ noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of grizzle1
Origin of grizzle2
Word History and Origins
Origin of grizzle1
Origin of grizzle2
Example Sentences
On the same March 3 morning, the county asked for help identifying a wisp-thin elderly man with a grizzled beard and swollen black eye who’d been found in Monterey Park’s Edison Trails Park.
Before Baldwin even appears as a grizzled outlaw with a mission of mercy, “Rust” sets itself up — uncannily, it must be said — as a woeful story about an unintended shooting death.
“A lot of people where I live like to see grizzles in their yard,” McLellan said.
He’s a 50-year-old playing a man 10 years older, but describing Joel as grizzled shows less in production’s cosmetic aging tricks than the actor’s full-body responses to confusion and hurt.
While the older Oath Keepers had demurred at his most sensitive questions recently, the teenager seemed eager to impress a grizzled survival instructor.
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