Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dread"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dread \Dread\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dreaded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Dreading}.] [AS. dr?dan, in comp.; akin to OS. dr[=a]dan,
OHG. tr[=a]tan, both only in comp.]
To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to,
with terrific apprehension.
When at length the moment dreaded through so many years
came close, the dark cloud passed away from Johnson's
mind. --Macaulay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dread \Dread\, v. i.
To be in dread, or great fear.
Dread not, neither be afraid of them. --Deut. i. 29.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dread \Dread\, n.
1. Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension
of danger; anticipatory terror.
The secret dread of divine displeasure. --Tillotson.
The dread of something after death. --Shak.
2. Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
The fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon
every beast of the earth. --Gen. ix. 2.
His scepter shows the force of temporal power, The
attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the
dread and fear of kings. --Shak.
3. An object of terrified apprehension.
4. A person highly revered. [Obs.] ``Una, his dear dread.''
--Spenser.
5. Fury; dreadfulness. [Obs.] --Spenser.
6. Doubt; as, out of dread. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Syn: Awe; fear; affright; terror; horror; dismay;
apprehension. See {Reverence}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dread \Dread\, a.
1. Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror;
frightful; dreadful.
A dread eternity! how surely mine. --Young.
2. Inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable; as,
dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dread
adj : 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 explosions shook the city"; "a terrible
curse" [syn: {awful}, {dire}, {direful}, {dread(a)}, {dreaded},
{dreadful}, {fearful}, {fearsome}, {frightening}, {horrendous},
{horrific}, {terrible}]
n : fearful expectation or anticipation: "the student looked
around the examination room with apprehension" [syn: {apprehension},
{apprehensiveness}]
v : be afraid or scared of; be frightened of; "I fear the
winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!"
[syn: {fear}]
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