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List of meaning for dread

a feeling of intense fear and anxiety

apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread(adj)

fearful expectation or anticipation

"the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"

awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible(verb)

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"

fear, dread(verb)

be afraid or scared of; be frightened of

"I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!"

causing fear

every ship on the Spanish Main was terrified of running into the dread pirate

suspicion or fear of future harm or misfortune

the dread felt by people awaiting bad news

the emotion experienced in the presence or threat of danger

we were filled with dread when we saw the rapids we would be rafting down

something or someone that causes fear or dread especially without reason

speaking in public is a perennial dread for many people

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