dreaded 的 4 个定义
- 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.
- to be in great fear.
- terror or apprehension as to something in the future; great fear.
- a person or thing dreaded.
- dreads, Informal. dreadlocks.
- (5)
- greatly feared; frightful; terrible.
- held in awe or reverential fear.
dreaded 近义词
anticipate with horror
更多dreaded例句
- Just like bears, they seem to spend the last months of the year hibernating in the warmth of their homes, dreading the very thought of setting a single foot outside.
- That shock has passed, and in its place creeps a nihilistic dread.
- We also have time to fill — more hours at home, more hours alone to think about the dread and boredom of, well, all of this.
- The nursing home finally had its first positive test, and that was the phone call I’d been dreading.
- Ask anyone in food media about the annual jokes and dread about Thanksgiving.
- Jackson was an exceptional math and science student; the dreaded Bartlett was one of his favorite professors.
- No, not Ebola, but rather infection with the dreaded bacterium, Yersinia pestis.
- Lohse and his beleaguered fellow pledges were, he claims, forced to chug vinegar and to dine on the dreaded “vomlet.”
- These pathetic folks need to accept that “jazz has replaced classical music as the dreaded incarnation of eat-your-broccoli art.”
- But when she opened the door, a harem of toned and dreaded hip-hop dancers were lounging on couches staring at her.
- On to Gaba Tepe just in time to see the opening, the climax and the end of the dreaded Turkish counter attack.
- The thought seemed to produce the dreaded object, for next moment a large hummock appeared right ahead.
- The Berlin exchange, while war was as yet only a dreaded possibility, rose from 20 m. 50 pf.
- A wild buffalo is a terrible thing; he is most to be dreaded of any creature in the islands.
- She knew he had divined the one thing she had most dreaded in returning,—the crossing again the threshold of her own room.