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Rued vs Grued - What's the difference?

rued | grued |

As verbs the difference between rued and grued

is that rued is (rue) while grued is (grue).

rued

English

Verb

(head)
  • (rue)
  • Anagrams

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    rue

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) rewe, reowe, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (-)
  • (archaic, or, dialectal) Sorrow; repentance; regret.
  • (archaic, or, dialectal) Pity; compassion.
  • Derived terms
    * rueful * ruth

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) , from Germanic. Cognate with Dutch rouwen, German reuen.

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action.
  • (obsolete) To cause to feel sorrow or pity.
  • To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place.
  • I rued the day I crossed paths with her.
  • * (rfdate) Chapman
  • I wept to see, and rued it from my heart.
  • * (rfdate) Milton
  • Thy will chose freely what it now so justly rues .
  • (archaic) To feel compassion or pity.
  • * Late 14th century Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
  • Madame, reweth upon my peynes smerte
  • * (rfdate) Ridley
  • which stirred men's hearts to rue upon them
  • (archaic) To feel sorrow or regret.
  • * (rfdate) Tennyson
  • Old year, we'll dearly rue for you.
    Usage notes
    Most frequently used in the collocation “rue the day”.

    Etymology 3

    (wikipedia rue) From (etyl) ruwe, (etyl) rue (> modern French rue), from (etyl) . Compare (rude).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta , especially the herb , formerly used in medicines.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:
  • But th'aged Nourse, her calling to her bowre, / Had gathered Rew , and Savine, and the flowre / Of Camphora, and Calamint, and Dill [...].
  • * c. 1600 , (William Shakespeare), , (Ophelia):
  • There’s fennel for you, and columbines: there’s rue''' for you; and here’s some for me: we may call it herb-grace o' Sundays: O you must wear your ' rue with a difference.
    Synonyms
    * garden rue * herb of grace
    Derived terms
    * goat's rue * rue anemone * Syrian rue * wall rue

    References

    Anagrams

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    grued

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (grue)
  • Anagrams

    *

    grue

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) gruen. Probably from (etyl) gruwen or (etyl) gruwen (Dutch gruwen), both from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (gru)
  • (archaic) To be frightened; to shudder with fear.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shiver, a shudder
  • * 1921 , , The Path of the King , chapter 9
  • There was a sharp grue of ice in the air.
  • * 1964', Geoffrey Jenkins, ''A '''Grue of Ice (title)
  • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • Any byproduct of a gruesome event, i.e. gore, viscera, entrails, blood and guts.
  • The butcher was covered in the accumulated grue of a hard day's work
    There was grue everywhere after the accident
  • * 1958 , Samuel Youd, writing as John Christopher, The Caves of Night
  • 'I've told you - it wasn't much. He tried to kiss me.' She smiled slightly. 'Just after he had shown me the family skeletons.' / 'What a lovely bit of grue !'
  • * 1996, Linda Badley, Writing Horror and the Body [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=iaHQorgoqd4C&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&sig=0unz5oiZA5IURViNe75MsU7vHG4]
  • Carrie'' is Cinderella in the body language of menstrual blood and raging hormones. King’s adolescent joy in grimaces and groans, the ''Mad magazine humor, and the staple of “grue ” hardly need mentioning.
  • * 2002, Carole Nelson Douglas, Chapel Noir [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=ZZu4sl0P1EAC&pg=PA336&lpg=PA336&sig=dPR0ntE54xw-h3m6fByM0fgJiuc]
  • “[...] She is quite agreeable to gruesome ghost stories, but appalled by the lust for life.” / “I admit that I am surprised by how well she handles sheer grue , better than I.”
  • * 2004, Talbot Mundy, Guns of the Gods [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=PUCcyz2L1iwC&pg=PA244&lpg=PA244&sig=REDDP_txW9FrUWEogxny6lZ4wUo]
  • “This is the grue ,” said Dick, holding his lantern high. / Its light fell on a circle of skeletons, all perfect, each with its head toward a brass bowl in the center.

    Etymology 3

    Probably from (gruesome); first used in Jack Vance's
    (1980).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fictional predator that dwells in the dark.
  • * 1981 , Byte magazine (volume 6)
  • I managed to get into the house through the front once, but I was plunged into darkness and eaten by a monster called a grue .
  • * 2009 , "Jas", Hazadous (SIC) Australian animals the GRUE.... your guide'' (on Internet newsgroup ''rec.travel.australia+nz )
  • To find a grue , turn off the light at night, or go for a walk in a dark place (but carry a flashlight with you).
  • * 2004 , "M.D. Dollahite", How would you imagine a grue?'' (on Internet newsgroup ''rec.games.int-fiction )
  • Incidentally, the best official text description I know of is in Sorcerer, when you actually become a grue and visit a grue colony. IIRC, even that description is vague, but does cannonize(SIC) that they are large four-legged reptiles.

    Etymology 4

    . Coined by to illustrate concepts in the philosophy of science.

    Adjective

    (Distinguishing blue from green in language) (-)
  • (philosophy) Of an object, green when first observed before a specified time or blue when first observed after that time.
  • * 1965 , , Fact, Fiction and Forecast ,
  • The grue property is defined as: x'' is grue if and only if ''x'' is green and is observed before the year 2000, or ''x is blue and is not observed before the year 2000.
  • * 2007 , Michael Clark, Paradoxes from A to Z?
  • The unexamined emeralds cannot be both green and grue , since if they are grue and unexamined they are blue.
  • (linguistics) Green or blue, as a translation from languages such as Welsh that do not distinguish between these hues.
  • See also

    * bleen *

    Anagrams

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