1. Be afraid or scared of; be frightened of
   - fear

1. Fearful expectation or anticipation
   - apprehension, apprehensiveness

1. Causing fear or dread or terror
   "the dread presence of the headmaster"
   - awful, dire, direful, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible

Derived forms: dreads, dreaded, dreading

See also: alarming

Type of: fear, fearfulness, fright

Encyclopedia: Dread

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