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dread

/dred/US // drɛd //UK // (drɛd) //

畏惧,害怕,可怕的,恐惧

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of: to dread death.
    • : to be reluctant to do, meet, or experience: I dread going to big parties.
    • : Archaic. to hold in respectful awe.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to be in great fear.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : terror or apprehension as to something in the future; great fear.
    • : a person or thing dreaded.
    • : dreads, Informal. dreadlocks.
    • : Informal. a person who wears dreadlocks.
    • : Archaic. deep awe or reverence.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : greatly feared; frightful; terrible.
    • : held in awe or reverential fear.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Prized for their efficiency — and dreaded for their overconfident drivers — these taxis are an essential part of mobility on the continent.

  • The best horror games build a sense of dread and vulnerability, and this moment from “Little Nightmares 2” captures those feelings perfectly, through unsettling sound design, Tim Burton-like art direction and a slow, gradual buildup to a scare.

  • As I mentioned, I have a son in ninth grade, and like so many, I’m kind of dreading the college-application process.

  • They raced down well-worn pathways of my brain, the ones that lead to dread and fear.

  • Most of us want to travel back home to Nigeria, and we have iPhones, we have dreads.

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

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

  • 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.

  • The specter of this virus fills some of our most stalwart souls with unreasoning dread even when it is no immediate threat.

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

  • There is always in the background of my mind dread lest help should reach the enemy before we have done with Sedd-el-Bahr.

  • Before the dread significance of these things became clear, a bugle-call rang out.

  • Gray returned no answer, moving restlessly up and down before the door in a fever of excitement and dread.

  • It was evident that the dread of another period of prison life was strong upon the trembling wretch.

  • In one word, to the whole worship of God the soul that clings to His Covenant will cordially bind itself in his dread presence.