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dread | dred |

verb [trans.]
anticipate with great apprehension or fear: Jane was dreading the party | [with infinitive] I dread to think what Russel will say.
*archaich. regard with great aware or reverence

noun
1 great fear or apprehension: the thought of returning to New Jersey filled her with dread | [in sing.] I used to have a dread of Sunday afternoons.
2 informal. a person with dreadlocks
*(dreads) dreadlocks.

adjective [attrib.]
greatly feared; dreadful: he was stricken with the dread disease and died.
*archaic. regarded with wae; greatly revered: that dread being we dare oppose.

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