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dread
[ dred ]
verb (used with object)
- to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of:
to dread death.
Antonyms:
- to be reluctant to do, meet, or experience:
I dread going to big parties.
- Archaic. to hold in respectful awe.
verb (used without object)
- to be in great fear.
noun
- terror or apprehension as to something in the future; great fear.
- a person or thing dreaded.
- dreads, Informal. dreadlocks.
- Informal. a person who wears dreadlocks.
- Archaic. deep awe or reverence.
adjective
- greatly feared; frightful; terrible.
Synonyms: , ,
- held in awe or reverential fear.
dread
/ ɛ /
verb
- to anticipate with apprehension or terror
- to fear greatly
- archaic.to be in awe of
noun
- great fear; horror
- an object of terror
- slang.a Rastafarian
- archaic.deep reverence
adjective
- literary.awesome; awe-inspiring
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Other yvlog Forms
- ·· adjective
- ·Ա noun
- · noun verb (used with object)
- ܲ·· adjective
- ܲ··Բ adjective
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of dread1
First recorded in 1125–75; Middle English dreden (verb), Old English ǣ岹, aphetic variant of aǣ岹, DzԻǣ岹; cognate with Old High German Գٰٲ “to fear”
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of dread1
Old English DzԻǣ岹; related to Old Saxon Գٻ岹, Old High German Գٰٲ
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Synonym Study
See fear.
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Grant said she didn’t have the energy to apply for grants, and for years, she was clouded in a looming sense of dread.
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"I am dreading it, to be honest, for a couple reasons," he told BBC Sport.
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The panic manifested as "a tremendous sense of overwhelming dread", he says, accompanied by sudden shortness of breath and a racing heartbeat.
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Here we go again, I thought, dread creeping in.
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Stuart Youens, 47, from central Scotland, says he taught in a good school but had started feeling dread at the thought of going in to work.
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