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Dread

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Definitions for Dread

noun
fearful expectation or anticipation
Synonyms
apprehension apprehensiveness
Examples
  1. the student looked around the examination room with apprehension
verb
be afraid or scared of
Synonyms
fear
Examples
  1. be frightened of
  2. I fear the winters in Moscow
  3. We should not fear the Communists!
adjective
causing fear or dread or terror
Synonyms
awful dire direful dread(a) dreaded dreadful fearful fearsome frightening horrendous horrific terrible
Examples
  1. the awful war
  2. an awful risk
  3. dire news
  4. a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked
  5. the dread presence of the headmaster
  6. polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was
  7. a dreadful storm
  8. a fearful howling
  9. horrendous explosions shook the city
  10. a terrible curse

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