dread (n.)

  1. fearful expectation or anticipation; the student looked around the examination room with apprehension

    [ Syn: apprehension , apprehensiveness ]

    dread (adj.)

  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

    [ Syn: awful , dire , direful , dreaded , dreadful , fearful , fearsome , frightening , horrendous , horrific , terrible ]

    dread (v.)

  1. be afraid or scared of; be frightened of; I fear the winters in Moscow; We should not fear the Communists!

    [ Syn: fear ]

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