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词汇 morbidly
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Definition of morbidly in English:

morbidly

adverb ˈmɔːbɪdli
  • 1(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
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I'm morbidly compelled by stuff filmed on a mobile phone such as the tsunami.
    • On the scaffold he gave a courteous bow to those who had come to morbidly observe the spectacle of his death.
    • A brother, also called Salvador, had died a few months before Dali's birth, and in childhood he came to identify morbidly with his namesake.
    • That blinding, boyish grin, his trademark of the last two decades, now is reserved for moments of morbidly twisted humour.
    • I spend Sunday morning at the clubhouse as well, watching more riders flinging themselves downhill, dwelling morbidly upon my looming ordeal.
    • What is it that attracts some people to the dead body and makes them morbidly regard it as an object of reverence?
    • Is it that we are morbidly fascinated with the dead?
    • The poetic association is either Poe's Telltale Heart narrator or Tennyson's Maude, in which a man morbidly considers the effects of his own burial.
    • The artifacts on display are interesting, but it's the wall-sized photo of the four dead gang members that most visitors find morbidly fascinating.
    • It pays to keep a positive attitude on these things, not to dwell morbidly upon them, and to keep calm.
  • 2Medicine
    In a way that relates to or is indicative of disease.

    the patients remained morbidly hypertensive
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Approximately 9 million Americans are morbidly obese - overweight by at least 100 pounds.
    • Looking unconvincingly dissolute, he is trying to recover from being "morbidly alcoholic," and his doctor encourages him to write the novel we see unfolding in flashback.
    • Women with morbidly adherent placenta were likely to experience more complications and transfusions.
    • He is a novelist who says he seriously considered becoming a doctor before attending college among "unscrupulous, morbidly neurotic pre-med students."
    • He was morbidly thin and locked along with his sibling in a dungeon-like room.
    • 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.

Definition of morbidly in US English:

morbidly

adverbˈmôrbədlē
  • 1(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
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The poetic association is either Poe's Telltale Heart narrator or Tennyson's Maude, in which a man morbidly considers the effects of his own burial.
    • I spend Sunday morning at the clubhouse as well, watching more riders flinging themselves downhill, dwelling morbidly upon my looming ordeal.
    • A brother, also called Salvador, had died a few months before Dali's birth, and in childhood he came to identify morbidly with his namesake.
    • I'm morbidly compelled by stuff filmed on a mobile phone such as the tsunami.
    • On the scaffold he gave a courteous bow to those who had come to morbidly observe the spectacle of his death.
    • It pays to keep a positive attitude on these things, not to dwell morbidly upon them, and to keep calm.
    • Is it that we are morbidly fascinated with the dead?
    • The artifacts on display are interesting, but it's the wall-sized photo of the four dead gang members that most visitors find morbidly fascinating.
    • What is it that attracts some people to the dead body and makes them morbidly regard it as an object of reverence?
    • That blinding, boyish grin, his trademark of the last two decades, now is reserved for moments of morbidly twisted humour.
  • 2Medicine
    In a way that relates to or is indicative of disease.

    the patients remained morbidly hypertensive
    Example sentencesExamples
    • 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.
    • He was morbidly thin and locked along with his sibling in a dungeon-like room.
    • Women with morbidly adherent placenta were likely to experience more complications and transfusions.
    • Looking unconvincingly dissolute, he is trying to recover from being "morbidly alcoholic," and his doctor encourages him to write the novel we see unfolding in flashback.
    • He is a novelist who says he seriously considered becoming a doctor before attending college among "unscrupulous, morbidly neurotic pre-med students."
    • Approximately 9 million Americans are morbidly obese - overweight by at least 100 pounds.
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