dread

Found in thesaurus: fear, fright, fearfulness

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dread
v. fear, be afraid; be anxious about; hold in awe, respect greatly
 
n. fear, terror, horror

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DREAD
 
Dread
Dread may refer to:

Feelings
  • Fear
  • Angst (in existentialist thought), a deep-seated spiritual condition of insecurity and despair in the free human being and the action of the person...

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dread

Noun
1. fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
(synonym) apprehension, apprehensiveness
(hypernym) fear, fearfulness, fright
(hyponym) trepidation
(derivation) fear

Verb
1. be afraid or scared of; be frightened of; "I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!"
(synonym) fear
(hyponym) panic
(derivation) apprehension, apprehensiveness

Adjective
1. 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"
(synonym) awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible
(similar) alarming


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dread
v. hrozit se
 
n. hrůza; velký strach

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dread
Czas. lękać się; boję się pomyśleć
 
Rzecz. strach