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| ADJECTIVE | 1 | dread, awful, dire, direful, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible | Causing fear or dread or terror |
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| NOUN | 1 | dread, apprehension, apprehensiveness | Fearful expectation or anticipation |
| VERB | 1 | dread, fear | Be afraid or scared of |
| Sounds | dreh'd |
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| Rhymes | abed, aforesaid, ahead, and 86 more rhymes in ehd... |
| Meaning | Causing fear or dread or terror. |
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| Examples | "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm" |
| Synonyms | awful, dire, direful, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
| Similar to | alarming |
| Meaning | Fearful expectation or anticipation. |
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| Synonyms | apprehension, apprehensiveness |
| Broader | fear, fearfulness, fright |
| Narrower | trepidation; foreboding, premonition, presentiment, boding; suspense; gloom, gloominess, somberness, sombreness; chill, pall |
| Verbs | dread |
| Meaning | Be afraid or scared of. Be frightened of. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE |
| Model | Sam cannot dread Sue |
| Synonyms | fear |
| Caused by | frighten, fright, scare, affright |
| Narrower | panic |
| Entailed by | apprehend, quail at |
| Nouns | dread |
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