| grub | (noun) a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects | - |
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| (noun) informal terms for a meal | Synonyms: chow, chuck, eats |
| (verb) search about busily | - |
| (verb) ask for and get free; be a parasite | Synonyms: bum, cadge, mooch, sponge |
| grubbily | (adverb) in a dingy manner | Synonyms: dingily, grungily |
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| grubbiness | (noun) the state of being grimy | Synonyms: griminess |
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| grubby | (adjective) infested with grubs | - |
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| (adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: begrimed, dingy, grimy, grungy, raunchy |
| (noun) small sculpin of the coast of New England | Synonyms: Myxocephalus aenaeus |
| grubstake | (noun) funds advanced to a prospector or to someone starting a business in return for a share of the profits | - |
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| (verb) supply with funds in return for a promised share of profits | - |
| grudge | (noun) a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation | Synonyms: grievance, score |
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| (verb) accept or admit unwillingly | - |
| (verb) bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings | Synonyms: stew |
| grudging | (adjective) petty or reluctant in giving or spending | Synonyms: niggardly, scrimy |
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| (adjective) of especially an attitude | - |
| grudgingly | (adverb) in a grudging manner | - |
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| gruel | (noun) a thin porridge (usually oatmeal or cornmeal) | - |
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| grueling | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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| gruelling | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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| gruesome | (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: ghastly, grim, grisly, macabre, sick |
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| gruesomely | (adverb) in a gruesome manner | - |
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| gruesomeness | (noun) the quality of being ghastly | Synonyms: ghastliness, grimness, luridness |
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| gruff | (adjective) deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion | Synonyms: hoarse, husky |
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| (adjective) brusque and surly and forbidding | Synonyms: crusty, curmudgeonly, ill-humored, ill-humoured |
| gruffly | (adverb) in a gruff manner | - |
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| gruffness | (noun) a throaty harshness | Synonyms: hoarseness, huskiness |
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| (noun) an abrupt discourteous manner | Synonyms: abruptness, brusqueness, curtness, shortness |
| grugru | (noun) tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts | Synonyms: Acrocomia aculeata, gri-gri, grugru palm, macamba |
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| grumble | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumbling, murmur, murmuring, mutter, muttering |
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| (noun) a loud low dull continuous noise | Synonyms: grumbling, rumble, rumbling |
| (verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: croak, gnarl, murmur, mutter |
| (verb) show one's unhappiness or critical attitude | Synonyms: grouch, scold |
| (verb) to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds | Synonyms: growl, rumble |
| (verb) make a low noise | Synonyms: rumble |
| grumbler | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, complainer, crybaby, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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| grumbling | (adjective) continuous full and low-pitched throbbing sound | Synonyms: rumbling |
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| (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, murmur, murmuring, mutter, muttering |
| (noun) a loud low dull continuous noise | Synonyms: grumble, rumble, rumbling |
| grume | (noun) a semisolid mass of coagulated red and white blood cells | Synonyms: blood clot |
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| (noun) a thick viscous liquid | - |
| grummet | (noun) fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines | Synonyms: cringle, eyelet, grommet, loop |
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| grumose | (adjective) transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass | Synonyms: coagulate, coagulated, curdled, grumous |
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| grumous | (adjective) transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass | Synonyms: coagulate, coagulated, curdled, grumose |
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| grump | (noun) a bad-tempered person | Synonyms: churl, crank, crosspatch, grouch |
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| grumpily | (adverb) in an ill-natured manner | Synonyms: crossly, grouchily |
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| grumpiness | (noun) a fussy and eccentric disposition | Synonyms: contrariness, crankiness, crotchetiness |
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| grumpy | (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, ill-tempered |
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| grunge | (noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: dirt, filth, grease, grime, soil, stain |
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| grungily | (adverb) in a dingy manner | Synonyms: dingily, grubbily |
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| grungy | (adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, raunchy |
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| grunt | (noun) medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught | - |
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| (noun) the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs | Synonyms: oink |
| (noun) an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker | - |
| (verb) issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise | - |
| grunter | (noun) domestic swine | Synonyms: hog, pig, squealer, Sus scrofa |
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| (noun) a person who grunts | - |
| gruntle | (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
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