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What does morbid mean?

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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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Andrew was recalled from his morbid reverie by his guide's gentle grasping at his right elbow.
I didn't mind at all when Brenda called it macabre or morbid or whatever she said.
To date, long-term medical therapies and regimens have not been effective in treating morbid obesity.
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?
Surgery for morbid obesity is usually the last-resort intervention in patients who have tried all other weight-reduction treatments.
It's as if our moralising politicians and would-be censors are caught in the grip of scopophobia, a morbid fear of the visual.

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