Definitions for dread

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Spelling: [dred]

IPA: /drɛd/

Dread is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in dread (adder).

Definitions for dread

noun

1. terror or apprehension as to something in the future; great fear.
2. a person or thing dreaded.
3. dreads, Informal. dreadlocks.
4. Informal. a person who wears dreadlocks.w.
5. Archaic. deep awe or reverence.

adjective

1. greatly feared; frightful; terrible.
2. held in awe or reverential fear.

verb (used with object)

1. to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of:
2. to be reluctant to do, meet, or experience:
3. Archaic. to hold in respectful awe.

verb (used without object)

1. to be in great fear.

Origin of dread

1125-75; Middle English dreden (v.), Old English drǣdan, aphetic variant of adrǣdan, ondrǣdan; cognate with Old High German intrātan to fear

Examples for dread

We do not dread, rather do we welcome, their progress in education and industry.

Throughout, they demonstrate a sophisticated appreciation for an artistic quest that was haunted by dread, persecution, and loss.

The dread of French domination seems to have haunted him like a nightmare.

He passed his hand across his damp forehead, for he felt faint with dread.

There is one stream which I dread my inability to stem—it is the tide of Popular Opinion.

People will testify they were cured of dread diseases when they prayed to Romero.

A few worries, to be sure, but not that cousin of depression and anxiety, dread.

The name that most Republicans seem both to expect and dread to consider running is Vito Fossella.

I dread to go down, said she, with so determined an answer: they will have no patience with me.

dread is the feeling I get when something bad seems to be on the way, and I know that there's not a damn thing I can do about it.