dread
/dɹɛd/ 名词 C2中文： 恐怖
- Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror. · My visit to the doctor is filling me with dread.
- Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
- Somebody or something dreaded.
- A Rastafarian.
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It’s surprising enough; but not so surprising as that Matthew should be at the bottom of it, him that always seemed to have such a mortal dread of little girls.
Her imagination had run away with her and she held the spruce grove in mortal dread after nightfall.
First of all Carrie Sloane dared Ruby Gillis to climb to a certain point in the huge old willow tree before the front door; which Ruby Gillis, albeit in mortal dread of the fat green caterpillars with which said tree was infested and with the fear of her mother before her eyes if she should tear her new muslin dress, nimbly did, to the discomfiture of the aforesaid Carrie Sloane.
But William Blair’s two daughters frequently waited on customers there and Matthew held them in absolute dread.
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