macabreadjective
uk/məˈkɑː.brə/us/məˈkɑː.brə/used to describe something that is very strange and unpleasant because it is connected with death or violence:
Even the police were horrified at the macabre nature of the killings.
She has a pretty macabre sense of humour.
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Death and dying
- be pushing up (the) daisies idiom
- bereave
- bite
- bury
- buy the farm idiom
- depart
- done
- drop
- expire
- foot
- gone
- inquest
- loss
- mortality
- peg
- posthumous
- road kill
- SIDS
- sudden infant death syndrome
- the disappeared
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