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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

macabre

/(mȧ*kä"bẽr)/ · IPA /məˈkɑb/
01 adj. portraying human injury or death in a way so as to inspiring shock or horror; gruesome; ghastly; as, macabre tortures conceived by madmen.
  1. 1.
    portraying human injury or death in a way so as to inspiring shock or horror; gruesome; ghastly; as, macabre tortures conceived by madmen.
  2. 2.
    Pertaining to or portraying the grim aspects of death, or the allegorical dance of death.