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dreaded

— adjective (= awful, dire, direful, dread, 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

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awful terrible fearsome dreadful dread horrific horrendous god-awful frightening feared direful dire horrible grisly frightful fearful abominable unspeakable unnerving tremendous terrifying suspenseful startling shitty raging outrageous morbid monstrous macabre intimidating horrid hideous gruesome grotesque gory ghastly formidable forbidding eerie creepy bad awing awesome atrocious

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Simple sentences

He dreaded having to spend Christmas in the hospital.

Mary dreaded having to tell her parents that she was pregnant.

Tom dreaded having to spend Christmas in the hospital.

Matthew dreaded all women except Marilla and Mrs. Rachel; he had an uncomfortable feeling that the mysterious creatures were secretly laughing at him.

Movie subtitles

Do you know the signs and symptoms of the dreaded panic attack?

Darling, I've dreaded telling you. but Father's taking me to Bath tomorrow.

The thing I've dreaded day after day, night after night.

Ever since I can remember, I have dreaded this moment.

Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy and will not let belief take hold of him, touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us.

This is the moment that I dreaded and hoped for wondering what I would say and do if I ever saw you again.

What I have dreaded all these months has come to pass.

From your expressions, I gather that is the dreaded nursery.

The dreaded sacred sacrificial ring of the dread Kaili.

Dreaded for his cruelty and violence!

All my life I've awaited your coming and dreaded it, like death itself.

Oh, no. Not the dreaded vacuum flask again.

All my life I've awaited your coming and dreaded it.

The war that I have dreaded for so long may soon become a reality.

This is the dreaded monsoon, the big rain, throughout the evening and night downpours rush toward the earth, every single drop turns into a wild river and drags cliff debris as well as entire mountain sides along into the deep.

But as soon as I tried it, I dreaded beeing mocked, the ridicule and I retired into my shell.

I've dreaded it for a long time.

Maybe now - the very moment we've all dreaded when they take the stuff to Germany. by ferry.

You're ferocious. You're dreaded.

Dreaded fuse things. They're as tangled as my beard.

Her dreaded rival Willy the animal who had aroused all her jealousy was risking his own life trying to protect her.

Fate had in store for her. For miss johnson was about to fall victim Of the dreaded, international chinese communist conspiracy.

They sent her to Vienna to escape the dreaded Turks.

The music coming up from the floor was our old friend, Ludwig van and the dreaded Ninth Symphony.

The dreaded end of a dreadful day.

The thing I have dreaded day after day.

I remember how I dreaded it.

And with you gone away, I. I got so I dreaded coming home.

As good as possible in this dreaded place.

This is the moment that I dreaded and hoped for. Wondering what I would say and do if I ever saw you again.

I dreaded the thought of never embracing you again.

I dreaded seeing her in the morning.

AND SHE'S THE ONE WHO DREADED ARMAGEDDON.

News and current affairs

The dreaded inflationary endgame suddenly looms as a very real possibility.

Restoring or securing it conjures up the dreaded specter of colonialism.

For example, treatment for a manic patient jeopardizes that extraordinary feeling of well-being and risks plunging the person into the dreaded depressive phase of the illness.

This makes me optimistic that I will live to celebrate the day when this dreaded disease is stamped out forever.

Indeed, the long dreaded impact of climate change is already upon us.

But, in an increasingly inflationary environment, any such efforts could fuel an outbreak of the dreaded wage-price spiral - the same lethal interplay that wreaked such havoc in the United States in the 1970's.

With benchmark interest rates stuck at the dreaded zero bound, monetary policy has been transformed from an agent of price stability into an engine of financial instability.

Everyone listens half awake for the dreaded knock on the door.

Iran's civilian authorities apparently have limited control over the military and the dreaded security services, which seem to answer to no one but themselves.

WASHINGTON, DC - Tax time in the United States - the dreaded mid-April deadline for filing annual income-tax forms - has come and gone.

The Berlin Wall collapsed in 1989 much more rapidly than most West Germans would have dreamed (or dreaded).

China doubters around the world were quick to pounce on the number, expressing fears of a stall, or even a dreaded double dip.

Though the challenge is beginning to be appreciated, current projections of the dreaded two-degree warming have yet to take into account variable ocean cycles.

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