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What does morbid mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word morbid? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (originally) Of, or relating to disease. [from 1650s]
  2. (by extension) Taking an interest in unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease. [from 1770s]
  3. Suggesting the horror of death; macabre or ghoulish
  4. Grisly or gruesome.
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Do I love him enough to overcome my morbid dread of acarids or do I hate the acarids so much that I will risk losing my love?
Andrew was recalled from his morbid reverie by his guide's gentle grasping at his right elbow.
It is the strength of this desire that breeds his morbid dread of humiliation.
To date, long-term medical therapies and regimens have not been effective in treating morbid obesity.
The whole village is gathered in a noisy sports hall, sipping local wines, while listening to a morbid folk song played on a second-hand zither.
Surgery for morbid obesity is usually the last-resort intervention in patients who have tried all other weight-reduction treatments.

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