macabre, adj. 1. grotesque, gruesome, gory, hideous, grisly, grim, morbid, monstrous, monsterlike; sadistic, brutal, savage, violent, fierce, fell, cruel, inhuman, fiendish, ghoulish, ogreish; horrid, horrible, horrifying, horrendous, horrific, terrifying, frightful, fearsome, eerie, frightening, scary; ghastly, dread, dreadful, dire, direful, terrible, awful, atrocious; shocking, appalling, alarming, abhorrent, odious, heinous, loathsome, outrageous, unspeakable, repugnant, repulsive, foul, revolting, sickening, SI. gross.
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macaroni, n. 1. pasta, paste, dough.
2. dandy, fop, jack-a-dandy, Beau Brummel, fancy Dan, coxcomb, popinjay, SI. peacock, SI. swell, Fr. petit maitre; fashion plate, fashionable, clothes horse, pretty-boy, sharp dresser, Zoot suiter, the glass of fashion and the mold of form, exquisite, silk-stocking, Brit. Inf. toff; dude, man about town, boulevardier. blade, gay blade; buck, spark, ladies' man, gallant, Chiefly Brit, blood.
mace1, n. 1. club, cudgel, bludgeon, bastinado, blackjack, Chiefly Irish Eng. shillelagh, Obs. truncheon; bat, flail, billy, billy club.
2. scepter, staff of office, rod of authority, verge, fasces, warder, Class. Myth, caduceus; staff, rod, baton, wand; cane, crosier, crook, stick.
mace1, n. tear gas, tear bomb, tear shell, tear grenade; gas, mist, vapor, chemical, irritant; spray, atomizer, Trademark. Chemical Mace,
macerate, v. 1. pulp, mash, squash, soften up; liquefy, soak, steep, soften.
2. waste away, become thin or emaciated, lose weight, shrivel up, shrink away, wither,
maceration, n. 1. soaking, steeping, saturation; pulping, mashing.
2. emaciation, wasting away, shrinking, shriveling, withering, drying up.
machete, n. 1. knife, bolo, cutlass, cane-cutter, cleaver, broadsword, Scot. claymore.
2. tarpon, game fish.