Dread

Word DREAD
Character 5
Hyphenation dread
Pronunciations /dɹɛd/

Definitions and meanings of "Dread"

What do we mean by dread?

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. intransitive verb

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

A dreadlock. noun

A person who wears dreadlocks. noun

Awe; reverence. noun

Causing terror or fear. adjective

Inspiring awe. adjective

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.

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

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

Reverential or respectful fear; awe.

Somebody or something dreaded.

A person highly revered.

Fury; dreadfulness.

A Rastafarian.

(chiefly in the plural) dreadlock

Synonyms and Antonyms for Dread

The word "dread" in example sentences

This sucks and really waiting in dread is so crushing to a mother. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Our own Hemingway wrote so much grandiose nonsense about this so-called sport that the reader feels a certain dread as the climactic spectacle approaches — a dread heightened by the awareness that Montherlant was a matador in his teenage years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Our dread is to guard your poise, and to avoid intruding. ❋ Fusijui (2009)

We the millions of uninsured Americans & others who cannot afford health insurance might as well go to some other planet or continue to live in dread of getting ill. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Your hours will pass in dread and misery, and soon the bolt will fall which must ravish from you your happiness for ever. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Then the Master, stalking forward where the murderer shrinks in dread, ❋ Unknown (2010)

While the seamen, pointing fingers, shrink in dread, and cry, 'Turn back!' ❋ Unknown (2010)

She could be intensely cold-hearted towards enemies, and her children lived in dread of disappointing her. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But just like the unhappy parents, we watched in dread as the majority of voters, cheered on by the mainstream media, went ahead and married him anyway. ❋ Unknown (2010)

My dread is that the thought police will not be far behind. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2008)

My mother was moving quickly, her mouth set in a thin, straight line, an expression of dread. ❋ Kristin Kimball (2010)

Like other tyrannies, the tyranny of the majority was at first, and is still vulgarly, held in dread, chiefly as operating through the acts of the public authorities. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Now that I own far more shares of the past than I do of the future, my dread is not of nonexistence but the loss of physical and mental powers — the heat in the lump of dust that expires before life itself. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Perhaps the level of dread is too much for them but the big picture is ugly and must be seen. ❋ Canadian Silver Bug/Green Assassin Brigade (2007)

Overall, the sense of dread is far too overdone for my taste. ❋ Maxine (2007)

We did a road inspection too for the benefit of those of you who head this way on holiday and live in dread of the Bodmin to Indian Queens stretch. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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