dreads
恐惧,畏惧,恐惧症,恐惧的人
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Definitions
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- : 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.
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- : to be in great fear.
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- : 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.
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- : greatly feared; frightful; terrible.
- : held in awe or reverential fear.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
William suddenly seems at severe risk of becoming what everyone dreads most: his father.
Twelve years ago, Connie Gruber received news that every wife of an armed serviceman dreads.
She slightly dreads the ship thing, rather as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother slightly dreaded celebrating her 100th birthday.
It prefers this to what it dreads: a pro-India regime on its western border.
What Greenblatt dreads is the decline of literacy, the disappearance of texts, the narrowing of expression.
And yet the individual opinions that compose the general ‘talk’ that he so dreads, are nothing to him.
She dreads a mistake, and is afraid that in speaking too quickly she may speak untruly.
Of all criticisms, the one he most dreads is, "I told you so."
There is nothing which the world dreads so much as an unpitying truth.
The plain girl dreads the comparisons which will be made, and shrinks from the social failure which she foresees.