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dread
fearful expectation or anticipation (Freq. 1)
- the student looked around the examination room with apprehension
• Syn:
apprehension, apprehensiveness
• Derivationally related forms:
apprehensive (for: apprehensiveness), apprehend (for: apprehension)
• Hypernyms:
fear, fearfulness, fright
• Hyponyms:
trepidation, foreboding, premonition, presentiment, boding,
boding, gloom, gloominess, somberness, sombreness,
chill, pall
be afraid or scared of;
be frightened of (Freq. 4)
- I fear the winters in Moscow
- We should not fear the Communists!
• Syn:
fear
• Derivationally related forms:
fear (for: fear)
• Hyponyms:
panic
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
- Sam cannot dread Sue
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
- a fearful howling
- horrendous explosions shook the city
- a terrible curse
• Syn:
awful, dire, direful, dreaded, dreadful,
fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible
• Similar to:
alarming
• Derivationally related forms:
terribleness (for: terrible), awfulness (for: awful)
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