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dread

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1. dread - Noun

2. dread - Adjective

3. dread - Verb

4. dread - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.

To be in dread, or great fear.

Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.

An object of terrified apprehension.

A person highly revered.

Fury; dreadfulness.

Doubt; as, out of dread.

Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful.

Inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown. Emil Cioran

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. Edith Wharton

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. George Bernard Shaw

Thieves dread a commotion. Latin Proverb

Its gude to dread the warst, the best will be the welcomer. Scottish Proverb

Do well and dread na shame. Scottish Proverb

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