Dread

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  • intransitive verb. To be in terror of; fear intensely.
  • intransitive verb. To anticipate with alarm, distaste, or reluctance.
  • intransitive verb. To hold in awe or reverence.
  • intransitive verb. To be very afraid.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Profound fear; terror.
  • noun. Fearful or anxious anticipation: synonym: fear.
  • noun. An instance of fear or fearful anticipation.
  • noun. A source of fear, awe, or reverence.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A dreadlock.
  • noun. A person who wears dreadlocks.
  • noun. Awe; reverence.
  • adjective. Causing terror or fear.
  • adjective. Inspiring awe.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Great fear or apprehension; tremulous anticipation of or repugnance to the happening of something: as, the dread of evil; the dread of suffering; the dread of the divine displeasure.
  • noun. Awe; fear united with respect; terror.
  • noun. A cause or object of apprehension; the person or the thing dreaded.
  • noun. Doubt.
  • To fear in a great degree; be in shrinking apprehension or expectation of: used chiefly with reference to the future: as, to dread death.
  • To cause to fear; alarm; frighten.
  • To venerate; hold in respectful awe.
  • To be in great fear, especially of something which may come to pass.
  • Dreaded; such as to excite great fear or apprehension; terrible; frightful.
  • That is to be dreaded or feared; awful; solemn; venerable: as, dread sovereign; a dread tribunal.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To be in dread, or great fear.
  • noun. Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
  • noun. Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
  • noun. An object of terrified apprehension.
  • noun. A person highly revered.
  • noun. Fury; dreadfulness.
  • noun. Doubt.
  • transitive verb. To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.
  • adjective. Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful.
  • adjective. Inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To fear greatly.
  • verb. To anticipate with fear.
  • noun. A great fear.
  • noun. Somebody or something dreaded.
  • noun. A Rastafarian.
  • noun. dreadlock
  • adjective. Terrible; greatly feared.
  • adjective. Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. causing fear or dread or terror
  • verb. be afraid or scared of; be frightened of
  • noun. fearful expectation or anticipation
  • Word Usage
    "This sucks and really waiting in dread is so crushing to a mother."
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    alarming  
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    panic  
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    alarm  anger  anxiety  apprehension  awe  
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