dreads
Speech parts
1. dreads - Noun
2. dreads - Verb
Meaning
dreads pl (plural only)
(colloquial) dreadlocks
dreads (plural dreads)
A Rastafarian person.
dreads
third-person singular simple present indicative of dread
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Examples
The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more.
The burnt child dreads the fire.
Freud says, "Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling.” Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant.
A burnt child dreads the fire.
A scalded cat dreads cold water.
A scalded cat dreads cold water.