dread

[Dread]

The noun dread describes the fear of something bad happening, like the dread you feel when walking alone on a deserted street in the dark.

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To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.

Noun
fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"

Verb
be afraid or scared of; be frightened of; "I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!"


v. t.
To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.

v. i.
To be in dread, or great fear.

n.
Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.

n.
Reverential or respectful fear; awe.

n.
An object of terrified apprehension.

n.
A person highly revered.

n.
Fury; dreadfulness.

n.
Doubt; as, out of dread.

a.
Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful.

a.
Inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.


Dread

Dread , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dreaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Dreading.] [AS. drdan, in comp.; akin to OS. dr'bedan, OHG. tr'betan, both only in comp.] To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.
When at length the moment dreaded through so many years came close, the dark cloud passed away from Johnson's mind.

Dread

Dread, v. i. To be in dread, or great fear.
Dread not, neither be afraid of them.

Dread

Dread, n. 1. Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
The secret dread of divine displeasure.
The dread of something after death.
2. Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
The fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth.
His scepter shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings.
3. An object of terrified apprehension. 4. A person highly revered. [Obs.] "Una, his dear dread." Spenser. 5. Fury; dreadfulness. [Obs.] Spenser. 6. Doubt; as, out of dread. [Obs.] Chaucer. Syn. -- Awe; fear; affright; terror; horror; dismay; apprehension. See Reverence.

Dread

Dread, a. 1. Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful.
A dread eternity! how surely mine.
2. Inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.

To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.

To be in dread, or great fear.

Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.

Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful.

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Usage Examples

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

I know a lot of people dread going to work every morning, but my work is playing pretend and doing stunts and screaming. It's a lot of fun and I get to play dress up. Every day is exciting and different and new and cool. I couldn't be more grateful.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.

The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

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