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Meaning dread meaning

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dread Verb

— To dread is to fear greatly. — To dread is to anticipate with fear.

dread

— verb (= fear) be afraid or scared of; be frightened of I fear the winters in Moscow We should not fear the Communists! — noun (= apprehension) fearful expectation or anticipation the student looked around the examination room with apprehension — adjective (= awful, dire, direful, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, horrendous, terrible) causing fear or dread or terror the awful war an awful risk dire news a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked the dread presence of the headmaster polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was a dreadful storm a fearful howling horrendous explosions shook the city a terrible curse

Synonyms dread synonyms

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dread English » English

fear terror fright horror be afraid apprehension awe be afraid of alarm scare dreadful terrible dreaded dismay be scared apprehend tremble panic fearsome consternation awful anxiety worry shrink from horrific horrible horrendous funk fearful direful be frightened wonder at trepidation trembling shirk reverence phobia misgiving grisly god-awful frightening frighten dire be fearful be anxious apprehensiveness apphrehend anguish afraid of afraid

Topics dread topics

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Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Afraid

Conjugation dread conjugation

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dread · verb

Examples dread examples

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Simple sentences

Many children dread their parents.
Why do you think animals dread fire?
Cats have a dread of water.
What I dread most is to get into a rut.
They live in constant dread of floods.
My writing desk, a place of dread: an incredible number of incredibly useful drawers - combined with incredibly little legspace.

Movie subtitles

Go, my dread lord, to your great-grandsire's tomb from whom you claim.
Therefore, dread King, we yield our town and lives to your soft mercy.
I dread the future. shut up in this isolated spot. dedicated to serve certainly the lowliest subjects of God's kingdom. and dedicated to a belief in their equality with me before God.
It's a dread sound.
But that the dread of something after death.
Dread, my lord. Your leave and favour to return to France, from whence, though willingly, I came to Denmark to show my duty in your coronation.
This to me in dread and secrecy did they impart and I with them the third night kept the watch, where, as they had reported, both in time, form of the thing, each word made true and good, the apparition comes.
Do you not come your tardy son to chide, that, lapsed in time and passion, lets go by the important acting of your dread command?
I dread to think of the fate of Howard Roark, whoever he is.
Mr Tatum is now approaching the entrance to the cliff dwelling to start another one of his perilous journeys into the underground mazes of this dread mountain.
I kind of dread it.
Well, my dread lord - so must I call you now.
Hear me, dread lord of darkness.
Dread Lord of Darkness, are you not greater than the god of Moses?
I dread to face him with this sordidness standing between us.
I've lived in dread of this moment.
I dread it so terribly.
I dread it.
Disaster befalls all who enter these dread portals.
Two people permanently enslaved by the tyranny of fear and superstition, facing the future with a kind of helpless dread.
And we detest all of our sins because we dread the loss of heaven and the pains of hell.
Jules would no longer dread, as he had from the start, that Catherine would cheat on him or quite simply die, since it had happened now.
It was a night of dread and horror!
Everyone feels this dread to some extent.
And that means there'lI be more of the dread things meant for us!
The sin upon my head, dread sovereign!
Therefore, dread king, we yield our town and lives to your soft mercy.
AND YET, I DON'T WANT TO ASK YOU, BECAUSE I KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO ANSWER ME TRUTHFULLY, AND I DREAD TO HEAR THE ANSWER.
A sense of dread that came from nowhere. like thunder on a clear day.
I have to make a speech and I dread it.
Oh, happiness is what I dread.
I always dread going home.
Our helplessness is revealed in our dread of the spirits, of ghosts.
Grant unto us the grace ever to live in dread of thee.
And the dread judge has the key of hell.

News and current affairs

It did this most famously in the case of smallpox, where the WHO led the successful campaign on global eradication of that long-dread disease.
But today's other EU members view the prospect of an ever-expanding Union to include Ukraine with fatalism and dread, for several reasons.
Ultimately, the spiritual gloom and existential dread that we have come to associate with Eastern Europe are merely an extension of our own.
The arrest of 17 people in Canada on terrorist charges underscores, across the West, a growing sense of dread and inevitability that is rooted in the homegrown nature of the threat.
Vaccines for all three of these dread diseases are within scientific reach, but will requires some billions of dollars to bring through the research and development stages to actual use.
By 2000, European senior bureaucrats began to dread the approach of each international meeting as the likely occasion for yet another lecture by the Americans on how Europe needed to become much more like America right now.
For those who dread the threat that automation poses to low-skilled labor, a ready answer is to train people for better jobs.
It ended in dread and mourning.
The Chinese people, unsurprisingly, regard politics with a mixture of caution and dread.
Most African wives dread the season.
KIEL - Now is the time of year when many people most dread stepping onto the bathroom scale.
But that fear does not compare to their dread of what might happen if they rock the boat.
There are not enough tents, blankets, and warm clothes to go around. Hundreds of tent clusters have come up, but thousands of families remain out under the skies, facing rain and hail, and with dread in their hearts.
Fear of terrorism is only one segment of what might best be described as a multi-level structure of dread.
Other minorities in Syria, such as Christians, Druze, and Kurds, have reason to dread a change for the worse.
Tudjman, long an object of dread, has vanished from the political screen, taking into oblivion the ideological clutter that made Croatia a pariah state.

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