| NOUN | feeling | dread, apprehension, apprehensiveness | fearful expectation or anticipation |
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| VERB | emotion | dread, fear | be afraid or scared of |
| ADJECTIVE | all | dread, awful, dire, direful, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible | causing fear or dread or terror |
| Sounds | dreh'd | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abed ... zed: 93 rhymes with ehd... | |
| Meaning | Causing fear or dread or terror. | |
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| Synonyms | awful, dire, direful, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible | |
| Broader | alarming | Frightening because of an awareness of danger |
| Spanish | alarmante, calamitoso, espantosa, espantoso, fatal, horrendo, horrible, horrorosa, horroroso, pavoroso, sobrecogedor, temible, temido, terrible, tremendo | |
| Catalan | alarmant, calamitós, esfereïdor, espantós, esparverador, fatal, horrible, horripilant, horrorós, paorós, temible, terrible | |
| Nouns | dread | fearful expectation or anticipation |
| Meaning | fearful expectation or anticipation. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | apprehension, apprehensiveness | |
| Narrower | chill, pall | A sudden numbing dread |
| foreboding, premonition, presentiment, boding | A feeling of evil to come | |
| gloom, gloominess, somberness, sombreness | A feeling of melancholy apprehension | |
| suspense | apprehension about what is going to happen / happen / happen | |
| trepidation | A feeling of alarm or dread | |
| Broader | fear, fearfulness, fright | An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight) |
| Spanish | aprensión, pavor, recelo, temor, terror | |
| Catalan | aprensió, basarda, por, recel, reguard, temença, temor, terror | |
| Adjectives | dread | causing fear or dread or terror |
| Verbs | dread | be afraid or scared of |
| Meaning | Be afraid or scared of; be frightened of. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE | |
| Model | Sam cannot dread Sue | |
| Synonym | fear | |
| Caused by | frighten, fright, scare, affright | drive out by frightening |
| Entailed by | apprehend, quail at | anticipate with dread or anxiety |
| Narrower | panic | Be overcome by a sudden fear |
| Spanish | temer | |
| Catalan | témer, tenir por de | |
| Nouns | dread | fearful expectation or anticipation |
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