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dread

• (s) 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
  direful, dreaded, dreadful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, terrible, awful, dire, fearful, horrific,

Nouns

• (n) fearful expectation or anticipation
  • the student looked around the examination room with apprehension
  apprehension, apprehensiveness,

Verbs

• (v) be afraid or scared of; be frightened of
  • I fear the winters in Moscow
  • We should not fear the Communists!
  fear,

Synonyms

apprehension apprehensiveness direful dreaded dreadful fearsome frightening horrendous terrible awful dire fearful horrific fear

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