DREAD
\dɹˈɛd], \dɹˈɛd], \d_ɹ_ˈɛ_d]\
Definitions of DREAD
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
By Princeton University
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fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.
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To be in dread, or great fear.
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Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
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Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
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An object of terrified apprehension.
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A person highly revered.
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Doubt; as, out of dread.
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Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful.
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Inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.
By Oddity Software
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To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.
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To be in dread, or great fear.
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Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
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Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
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An object of terrified apprehension.
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A person highly revered.
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Doubt; as, out of dread.
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Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful.
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Inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.
By Noah Webster.
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To fear greatly; to look forward to with fear.
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To be in great fear.
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Fear mingled with respect and affection.
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Awful; solemn.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Fear: awe: the objects that excite fear.
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Exciting great fear or awe.
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(Pr. Bk.) To fear with reverence: to regard with terror.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. Overwhelming apprehension of danger; terror, —reverential or respectful fear; awe;—an object of terrified apprehension or of reverential fear.