Definitions for dreads

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Spelling: [dred]
IPA: /drɛd/

Dreads is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 109 anagrams from letters in dreads (adders).

Definitions for dreads

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 dreads

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

Examples for dreads

In dealing with your daily dreads you simply counted God out.

Let him not insult her by the doubt that she dreads poverty or long delay.

A chimney was standing, and I must have clung to it with all my strength, like an animal that dreads death.

She dreads a mistake, and is afraid that in speaking too quickly she may speak untruly.

What Greenblatt dreads is the decline of literacy, the disappearance of texts, the narrowing of expression.

She dreads—she 's not so wrong there—she dreads leaving everything in my power.

Of all criticisms, the one he most dreads is, "I told you so."

Katie, an ophthalmologist who prefers that we not use her last name, dreads asking patients about any problem involving tearing.

It prefers this to what it dreads: a pro-India regime on its western border.

"And thus he dreads and hates you," said she, fixing her dark eyes sternly on me.

Word Value for dreads
Scrable

8

Words with friends

8

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