dread
/drɛd/
–verb (used with object)
| 1. | to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of: to dread death. |
| 2. | to be reluctant to do, meet, or experience: I dread going to big parties. |
| 3. | Archaic. to hold in respectful awe. |
–verb (used without object)
| 4. | to be in great fear. |
–noun
| 5. | terror or apprehension as to something in the future; great fear. |
| 6. | a person or thing dreaded. |
| 7. | dreads, Informal. dreadlocks. |
| 8. | Informal. a person who wears dreadlocks. |
| 9. | Archaic. deep awe or reverence. |
–adjective
| 10. | greatly feared; frightful; terrible. |
| 11. | held in awe or reverential fear. |


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