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dread 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Adjective
/dred/,
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dreaded, past tense; dreads, 3rd person singular present; dreading, present participle; dreaded, past participle;
  1. Greatly feared; dreadful
    • - he was stricken with the dread disease and died
  2. Regarded with awe; greatly revered
    • - that dread being we dare oppose
Verb
  1. Anticipate with great apprehension or fear
    • - Jane was dreading the party
    • - I dread to think what Russell will say
  2. Regard with great awe or reverence

Noun
  1. Great fear or apprehension
    • - the thought of returning to New Jersey filled her with dread
    • - I used to have a dread of Sunday afternoons
  2. A person with dreadlocks

  3. Dreadlocks


  1. awful: causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous ...
  2. apprehension: fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
  3. fear: be afraid or scared of; be frightened of; "I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!"
  4. Dread is a live album by Living Colour released only in Japan in 1994. It contains live recordings from the Stain tour, an acoustic radio session and two B-sides. ...
  5. Dread is a 2009 horror film directed by Anthony DiBlasi and starring Jackson Rathbone, Shaun Evans and Hanne Steen, based on the short story of the same name by Clive Barker. The story was originally published in 1984 in volume two of Barker's Books of Blood short story collections.
  6. A great fear; Somebody or something dreaded; A Rastafarian; dreadlock; To fear greatly; To anticipate with fear; Terrible; greatly feared; Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe
  7. feeling dreadful. "I feel dred man". Also a Rastafarian term used to describe something impressive or cool.
  8. The feeling of not being able to deflect (certainly not without effort) a certain identifiable threat.
  9. to be reluctant to do, meet, or experience
  10. (abbr.) A dreadnought class ship.
  11. moral: ottappa s. hiri-ottappa.
  12. 1. a person with dreadlocks
  13. gaya, S  got, S  goroth