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morbidly /ˈmɔːbɪdli /adverb1(With reference to a disturbing or unpleasant interest or activity) in an abnormal and unhealthy manner: a girl who morbidly wears her dead mother’s clothes a rich recluse morbidly obsessed with the past...- That blinding, boyish grin, his trademark of the last two decades, now is reserved for moments of morbidly twisted humour.
- Is it that we are morbidly fascinated with the dead?
- I'm morbidly compelled by stuff filmed on a mobile phone such as the tsunami.
2 Medicine In a way that relates to or is indicative of disease: the patients remained morbidly hypertensive...- Approximately 9 million Americans are morbidly obese - overweight by at least 100 pounds.
- He is a novelist who says he seriously considered becoming a doctor before attending college among "unscrupulous, morbidly neurotic pre-med students."
- Those who were morbidly fat, with a BMI above 40, lost about 10 years off their expected lifespan, similar to the effect of lifelong smoking.
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