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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dread
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a vague unease/dread
▪ I felt a vague unease.
dread a moment (=feel anxious or worried about something that will happen)
▪ She was dreading the moment when she would have to fire him.
dread the prospect (of sth) (=feel very worried about it)
▪ I dread the prospect of staying here while you’re away.
I dread/hate/shudder to think (=I do not want to think about something bad)
▪ I dread to think what might have happened if we hadn’t found her.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
moment
▪ He spat a bit as he spoke and Carrie dreaded the moment when she would have to shake hands and be spat at.
▪ She got out of the car, dreading the moment when she would have to meet Dana.
▪ They had dreaded reaching this moment.
prospect
▪ What she dreaded was the prospect of facing life without Nathan once he had made her his.
▪ She rather dreaded the prospect, in spite of the fact that Helen prophesied an enjoyable evening.
▪ Governments will dread the prospect of funds shifting capital abroad.
thought
▪ Perhaps you are fine when dealing with some one on a one-to-one basis but dread the thought of going to a party.
▪ I think by this time they must be dreading the thought of another signal from the Ariadne.
▪ How terrible to think he now dreaded the thought of a weekend away with her by themselves.
▪ Many parents dread the thought of having to depend on their children.
▪ I might dread the thought of having to look after an Alzheimer patient.
▪ She'd never had an enema, and had always dreaded the thought of it.
▪ Sad Joanna told detectives she dreaded the thought of eating and drinking at parties over the holiday period.
▪ She will dread the thought of that final parting, which must come in time.
■ VERB
come
▪ I knew too that that invitation was bound to come and I was dreading it.
▪ I was thinking about the coming night, half dreading it, half anticipating it.
▪ The half-crazed hippy, deeply into Zen, Whose cryptic homilies she came to dread.
▪ On the contrary, I was coming to dread them.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mortal fear/dread/terror
▪ She held herself raised by her great prosperity above all that ordinary mortals fear and reverence.
▪ The crew is in mortal terror.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I have to go to the dentist's tomorrow, and I'm dreading it.
▪ The icy weather had citrus growers dreading the effects of frost.
▪ The Wilsons were coming back from holiday today, and I was dreading telling them what had happened while they were away.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He spat a bit as he spoke and Carrie dreaded the moment when she would have to shake hands and be spat at.
▪ I had expected her to want to come back to the hotel with me and I was dreading it.
▪ It prefers a rich, moist but well drained soil and dreads a dry windy site.
▪ She will dread the thought of that final parting, which must come in time.
▪ They avoided talking about Miss Poole or Heather and dreaded going to the weekly dinner parties.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
fill
▪ It accompanied her to bed at night and filled her dreams with dread and her sleep with sudden awakenings.
▪ Christmas is coming ... does the thought fill you with dread or delight?
▪ I was filled with dread, and with paralysing fear.
live
▪ She lived in hope and dread.
▪ School was never a good experience for her because she lived in dread of being called on.
▪ BThese are children who live in daily dread, compiling memories of abuse and deceit they carry into adulthood.
▪ It lives in fear and dread of the present.
▪ They live with a constant dread of the telephone ringing because they fear it will bring bad news.
▪ I live in dread of their critical utterances.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I felt a sense of dread as I walked into the interview.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A dread of black male sexuality remains.
▪ After a very short time we all felt a horrible feeling of being watched and an intangible atmosphere of dread and doom.
▪ At the time I was worn out, still reacting no doubt from living for years on end in fear and dread.
▪ But the nameless dreads did not stop.
▪ Humphrey backed up Dulles, not least because of his dread of excessive government spending.
▪ The cold hand of dread clutched Larsen's guts.
▪ You, with your midair dread, blindly bunched into that swinging house you call a home.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dread

Dread \Dread\, v. i. To be in dread, or great fear.

Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
--Deut. i. 29.

Dread

Dread \Dread\ (dr[e^]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dreaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Dreading.] [AS. dr[=ae]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.

Dread

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.

Dread

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dread

late 12c., a shortening of Old English adrædan, contraction of ondrædan "counsel or advise against," also "to dread, fear, be afraid," from on- "against" + rædan "to advise" (see read (v.)). Cognate of Old Saxon andradon, Old High German intraten. Related: Dreaded; dreading. As a noun from 12c.\n

Wiktionary
dread

  1. 1 Terrible; greatly feared. 2 (context archaic English) Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe. n. 1 Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror. 2 Reverential or respectful fear; awe. 3 Somebody or something dreaded. 4 (context obsolete English) A person highly revered. 5 (context obsolete English) fury; dreadfulness. 6 A Rastafarian. 7 (context chiefly in the plural English) dreadlock v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To fear greatly. 2 To anticipate with fear. 3 (context intransitive English) To be in dread, or great fear. 4 (cx transitive English) To style (the hair) into dreadlocks.

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WordNet
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]

dread

n. fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension" [syn: apprehension, apprehensiveness]

dread

v. be afraid or scared of; be frightened of; "I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!" [syn: fear]

Wikipedia
DREAD

DREAD may refer to:

  • DREAD (risk assessment model)
  • A model of centrifugal gun
DREAD (risk assessment model)

DREAD is part of a system for risk-assessing computer security threats previously used at Microsoft. It provides a mnemonic for risk rating security threats using five categories.

The categories are:

  • Damage - how bad would an attack be?
  • Reproducibility - how easy is it to reproduce the attack?
  • Exploitability - how much work is it to launch the attack?
  • Affected users - how many people will be impacted?
  • Discoverability - how easy is it to discover the threat?

The DREAD name comes from the initials of the five categories listed. It was initially proposed for threat modeling, but it was discovered that the ratings are not very consistent and are subject to debate. It was out of use at Microsoft by 2008.

When a given threat is assessed using DREAD, each category is given a rating. For example, 3 for high, 2 for medium, 1 for low and 0 for none. The sum of all ratings for a given exploit can be used to prioritize among different exploits.

Dread (album)

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. The live recordings were recorded on 7 June 1993 at Le Zenith in Paris, France and at a concert on 24 April 1993 at the Riviera Theatre in Chicago. The radio session was recorded for a Dutch radio show called Countdown Café in February 1993. Both of the B-sides were recorded during the Stain sessions.

Dread (film)

Dread is a 2009 British horror film directed and written 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.

Dread (role-playing game)

Dread is a horror RPG published by The Impossible Dream. The game uses a Jenga tower for action resolution and was winner of the 2006 Ennie Award for Innovation as well as being nominated for Best Game and Best Rules.

Usage examples of "dread".

Then all the satisfaction she had derived from what she had heard Madame Bourdieu say departed, and she went off furious and ashamed, as if soiled and threatened by all the vague abominations which she had for some time felt around her, without knowing, however, whence came the little chill which made her shudder as with dread.

At her house I made the acquaintance of several gamblers, and of three or four frauleins who, without any dread of the Commissaries of Chastity, were devoted to the worship of Venus, and were so kindly disposed that they were not afraid of lowering their nobility by accepting some reward for their kindness--a circumstance which proved to me that the Commissaries were in the habit of troubling only the girls who did not frequent good houses.

I was struck by the dread in her voice, which seemed to be more fear of Aden himself than a reluctance to share the bad news.

I recollect his warmth of heart and high sense, and your beauty, gentleness, charms of conversation, and purely disinterested love for one whose great worldly advantages might so easily bias or adulterate affection, I own that I have no dread for your future fate, no feeling that can at all darken the brightness of anticipation.

None of these countries had prepared for aeronautic warfare on the magnificent scale of the Germans, but each guarded secrets, each in a measure was making ready, and a common dread of German vigour and that aggressive spirit Prince Karl Albert embodied, had long been drawing these powers together in secret anticipation of some such attack.

With that said, he told Alec of his latest nightmare, and of the unreasoning dread that had come over him before.

Cold with dread, Alec found the driver and helped him bundle Seregil, well wrapped in cloaks and blankets, into the carriage.

Perhaps it was with some unconscious dread of this tedium that he made a sudden suggestion to Sir Alured in reference to Dresden.

She did not have to remind herself that an amniotic fluid embolus was the most dreaded complication in obstetrics.

Front, three abreast, the man in the middle dozing, and all dreading the first sight of the Hanging Virgin of Albert because beyond her steeple lay the terrible valley of the Ancre and the hills above the Somme.

Angry debate in the Senate and upon the forum was now hushed, and the supreme question that took hold of national life was to find enduring arbitrament in the dread tribunal of war.

Those who have reported their opinions to us, from the earliest Jesuit missionaries to the latest investigators of their mental characteristics, concur in ascribing to them a deep trust in a life to come, a cheerful view of its conditions, and a remarkable freedom from the dread of dying.

She was ashamed to betray her dread, and to say where she now planned to go.

If you decide to cross that dread threshold, may Ath Creator stand at your shoulder with every bright power of guidance.

He dreaded being sent back to the Tower even more than he dreaded a beating for stealing illegal passage on the Windship, but if he were allowed to remain in the city, would he not merely end up as a drudge, toiling in sunless chambers for the rest of his life, polishing aumbries, bleeding, broken?