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Defenition of the word dread

    • Defenition of the word dread

      • An unpleasant, usually localised physical sensation that is often the result of an injury, disease or other ailment.
      • A sudden, alarming amazement or dread that results in utter confusion.
      • fearful expectation or anticipation: "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
      • 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"
      • be afraid or scared of; be frightened of; "I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!"
      • fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
      • fearful expectation or anticipation
      • be afraid or scared of; be frightened of
      • causing fear or dread or terror

    Synonyms for the word dread

      • apprehension
      • apprehensiveness
      • awful
      • dire
      • direful
      • dreaded
      • dreadful
      • fear
      • fearful
      • fearsome
      • frightening
      • horrendous
      • horrific
      • terrible

    Similar words in the dread

      • alarming

    Hyponyms for the word dread

      • boding
      • chill
      • foreboding
      • gloom
      • gloominess
      • pall
      • panic
      • premonition
      • presentiment
      • somberness
      • sombreness
      • suspense
      • trepidation

    Hypernyms for the word dread

      • fear
      • fearfulness
      • fright

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