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macabre

/muh-kah-bruh, -kahb, -kah-ber/US // məˈkɑ brə, -ˈkɑb, -ˈkɑ bər //UK // (məˈkɑːbə, -brə) //

恐怖的,骇人听闻,恐怖,可怕的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible.
    • : of, pertaining to, dealing with, or representing death, especially its grimmer or uglier aspect.
    • : of or suggestive of the allegorical dance of death.

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Examples

  • In Pune, one of the worst-hit cities in India, the wailing sirens of ambulances have become a macabre feature of the city’s soundscape.

  • Later in the “Sinnerman” narrative, the game features yet another scene that makes excellent use of the first-person camera, using your eyes and hands to partake in this macabre, sacrilegious act of violence and media.

  • Given the somewhat macabre origins of the feast, many of the celebrations were designed to placate the gods.

  • You two seem to have similar artistic sensibilities, both very interested in the macabre.

  • After all, he was on television every week, telling macabre stories, frightening us.

  • And in the summer months, when shootings soar, the city can be a ghoulish playground for those interested in the macabre.

  • Over the past few years, macabre signs of vampire burials have been unearthed across Europe and even in the United States.

  • For the significance of the French word macabre we must turn to the Arabic makabir, signifying a burial place or cemetery.

  • "All over but the cheering," he replied with that strange, macabre humor which often comes to solace men about to die.

  • At Rouen in the aitre (atrium) or cloister of St Maclou there also remains a sculptured danse macabre.

  • The Danse Macabre itself is a subject which is well nigh exhaustless.

  • Saint-Saëns has even utilized the barbarous xylophone, whose proper place is the variety hall, in his "Danse Macabre."