dreaded

Speech parts

1. dreaded - Adjective

2. dreaded - Verb

4. dreaded - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Dread

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Examples

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself. Publilius Syrus

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. Carroll Quigley

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say. Jonathan Swift

For it is only in accepting death that one can truly live, and for the human animal, death has always been the great black beast from the abyss to be dreaded or defeated or avoided or hated - but never looked upon clearly face to face. David Zindell

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution. John Adams

The evil is dreaded by men but not heaven; the kind-hearted is cheated by mortals but not God. Chinese Proverb

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