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dread v. [
fear] be afraid or scared of; be frightened of; "I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!"
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dread n. [
apprehension, apprehensiveness] fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
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dread s. [
awful, dire, direful, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible] 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"; "
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