dread
/dɹɛd/ verb B2- To fear greatly.
- To anticipate with fear. · I'm dreading getting the results of the test, as it could decide my whole life.
- To be in dread, or great fear.
- To style (the hair) into dreadlocks.
He/she/it dreads · Past dreaded · Past participle dreaded · -ing form dreading
Verb forms
- Base form
- dread
- He/she/it
- dreads
- Past
- dreaded
- Past participle
- dreaded
- -ing form
- dreading
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Uneasiness now yielded to the most extreme dread on the part of those present.
Not that I am afraid of _myself_, but I dread other people’s remarks.”
The Witch was too much afraid of the dark to dare go in Dorothy’s room at night to take the shoes, and her dread of water was greater than her fear of the dark, so she never came near when Dorothy was bathing.
Besides, had not the deputy, who had been so kind to him, told him that provided he did not pronounce the dreaded name of Noirtier, he had nothing to apprehend?
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