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dread
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Adjective
  • 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
Noun
  • fearful expectation or anticipation
    • the student looked around the examination room with apprehension
Verb
  • be afraid or scared of; be frightened of
    • I fear the winters in Moscow
    • We should not fear the Communists!
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