Word Finder - dread

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

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my visit to the doctor is filling me with dread

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Reverential or respectful fear; awe.

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Somebody or something dreaded.

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A person highly revered.

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Fury; dreadfulness.

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A Rastafarian.

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(chiefly in the plural) dreadlock

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To fear greatly.

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To anticipate with fear.

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I'm dreading getting the results of the test, as it could decide my whole life.

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To be in dread, or great fear.

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To style (the hair) into dreadlocks.

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Terrible; greatly feared.

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Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.

A feeling of dread was in the air.

Reading these letters, Nicholas felt a dread of their wanting to take him away from surroundings in which, protected from all the entanglements of life, he was living so calmly and quietly.

Dread settled into his stomach.

Her sense of dread grew as she approached and followed Jonny into his apartment.

With a look of dread, she went ahead of him.

Dread settled into her stomach.

A tremor of dread slid through her.

With some dread, he returned to Deidre's apartment.

The events of the last few days coupled with the dread of the unknown future were taking their toll.

A sense of dread filled her as she approached Damian's room.

Dread pooled in the base of his stomach for more than one reason.

He met Dan's gaze and saw the same sense of dread on his counterpart's face.

Accustomed freely and fearlessly to investigate whatever came before him, and swayed by a scrupulous dread of insincerity, he was doomed to long and anxious hesitation concerning some of the fundamental points of theology before arriving at a firm conviction of the truth of Christianity.

With a sense of deep dread, he felt for the first time that the role he expected of her may not be a role she chose to fulfill.

Dread filled her as she drove up the familiar driveway to the stone manor.

It felt much like dread.

He felt dread knot in his stomach at the sign she wasn't going to give Rhyn yet another chance.

With some dread, she hunched her shoulders to keep anyone from looking at her micro and opened those from Mr. Tim.

She turned, her body tense and her large green eyes swimming with fear and dread.

Dread of Servia impelled Kotro manic to aid Hungary.

In fact, her emotion at the moment would better be described as uncomfortable – if not outright dread.

A senior backbencher said, " I dread to think of some of the scenes they will capture.

She'd watched the arriving guests with a mixture of fascination and dread.

Her body settled, and she recalled the look on his face with a mix of excitement and dread.

His gaze flickered to the necklace with a sense of dread.

The natives do not really respect these wandering friars, but they dread their curses.

Pope Liberius baptized him in 360; three years later the news of the death of the emperor Julian came to Rome, and Christians felt relieved from a great dread.

Opposition to the Washington treaty and dread of the bold railway policy of the government also contributed to weaken its position.

Dread of the Normans, too, explains the singular attitude of the Curia towards the Comneni, of whom it was alternately the enemy and the protector or ally.

Litigation in the yarn trade is very unusual, and Lancashire traders generally have only vague notions of the bearing of law upon their transactions, and a wholesome dread of the exp'erience that would lead to better knowledge.

It was probably the origin of the story of Narcissus, and there is scarcely a race which is free from the haunting dread.

Although the Bab g (4) g Y lonian religion presents a very gloomy view of the world of the dead, it is not without a few faint glimpses of a hope that a few mortals at least may gain deliverance from the dread doom.

When he died (1658) there remained branded on the national mind two strong impressions which it took more than a century to obliteratethe dread of the domination of a standing army, and abhorrence of the very fame of religious zeal.

He didn't expect the sight of his necklace dangling in the center of her chest to fill him with anything other than regret or dread.

Hincmar of Reims and Haimo of Halberstadt, took the side of Paschasius, and affirmed that the substance of the bread and wine is changed, and that God leaves the colour, taste and other outward properties out of mercy to the worshippers, who would be overcome with dread if the underlying real flesh and blood were nakedly revealed to their gaze !

Materialists seem to dread the word " materialism."

During the breeding season it utters a booming noise, from which it probably derives its generic name, Botaurus, and which has made it in many places an object of superstitious dread.

A kinder or more faithful friend, a deadlier or more dangerous enemy, it would be impossible to dread or to desire.

Gradually, however, he was made uneasy by the obvious trend of the imperial policy towards the annihilation of Protestantism, and by a dread lest the ecclesiastical lands should be taken from him; and the issue of the edict of restitution in March 1629 put the coping-stone to his fears.

Yet such was the dread of The France and the enfeebled state of the country that Holland retained the privilege, which had been con- Nether- ceded to her during the war, of garrisoning the principal fortresses or Barrier towns, on the French frontier, and her right to close the navigation on the Scheldt was again ratified by a European treaty.

This advice was rejected from dread of another revolution in Paris, and a delegation to organize resistance in the provinces was despatched to Tours, but when this was seen to be inefficient Gambetta himself (7th October) quitted Paris in a balloon, and upon arriving at Tours took the supreme direction of affairs as minister of the interior and of war.

He wrote inconsiderately on the subject, but we must remember that he was at the time afflicted in body and mentally haunted by dread of impending change.

No longer had the princes as in former years any reason to dread the designs of an ambitious king; the destinies of the kingdom were in their own hands and they would not permit them to be controlled by an alien power.

The Ultramontane party in Austria, France and Bavaria had, after 1866, been hostile to Prussia; there was some ground to fear that it might still succeed in bringing about a Catholic coalition against the empire, and Bismarck lived in constant dread of European coalitions.

During this time of prosperity there was no dread of Carthaginian inroads.

In spite of all the precautions they took and the contracts they made, the Egyptians could never quite rid themselves of the dread that their tombs might decay and their cult be neglected; and they sought therefore to obtain by prayers and threats what they feared they might lose altogether.

The monuments of the great Buddhist monarchs, Asoka and Kanishka, confronted him from the time he neared the Punjab frontier; but so also did the temples of Siva and his " dread " queen Bhima.

Penal servitude, to use the words of the lord chief justice Sir Alexander Cockburn, one of the members of the committee, "was hardly calculated to produce on the mind of the criminal that salutary dread of the recurrence of the punishment which may be the means of deterring him and, through his example, others from the commission of crime."

But these people were rendered licentious in revolt or impotent for salutary action by ignorance, by terror, by uneasy dread of the doom declared for heretics and rebels.

The session, however, was not far advanced when the question of patents was brought up; a determined attack was made upon the very ones of which Bacon had been in dread, and it was even proposed to proceed against the referees (Bacon and Montagu) who had certified that there was no objection to them in point of law.