Definitions for dread

Overview of noun dread

The noun dread has 1 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (1) apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread

(fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension")

Overview of verb dread

The verb dread has 1 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (4) fear, dread

(be afraid or scared of; be frightened of; "I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!")

Overview of adj dread

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1. awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible

(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")