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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dreaded
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ cancer and other dreaded diseases
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Back in the tree there was a tremendous celebration for Little Billy's victory over the dreaded Gruncher.
▪ Having dealt successfully with the dreaded cupboard under the stairs, we had to find another situation for Sylvia to cope with.
▪ That is why I want you to listen carefully to the dreaded DOs and DON'Ts I am about to give you.
▪ The only discovery which has definitely not been incorporated in the project is the dreaded tawse once used to beat the wayward.
▪ There were some who had been destined for fighters, especially Meteors, who found themselves headed for a dreaded bomber tour.
▪ They may not face the dreaded inner-city bureau queue but the less frequent presentation of serious enquiries makes training slower.
▪ Think of the dreaded slipping seat.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dreaded

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.

Wiktionary
dreaded

  1. Causing fear, dread or terror v

  2. (en-past of: dread)

WordNet
dreaded

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), dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible]

Usage examples of "dreaded".

They were that most dreaded of Martian creatures--great white apes of Barsoom.

Like Hor Vastus, he too dreaded the truth and would not be the one to wrest a statement from me.

I asked, knowing that he would say the words I most dreaded, but yet I loved her so that I could not refrain from hearing even the worst about her fate so that it fell from the lips of one who had seen her but recently.

I flung the warm shawl over her, and drew the edges tight around her neck, for I dreaded lest she should get some deadly chill from the night air, unclad as she was.

There, in the coffin lay no longer the foul Thing that we had so dreaded and grown to hate that the work of her destruction was yielded as a privilege to the one best entitled to it, but Lucy as we had seen her in life, with her face of unequalled sweetness and purity.

Time is now to be dreaded, since once he put that mark upon your throat.

I rejoiced, for I knew that what she could not, none of those that we dreaded could.

From Dunedin the Alert and her noisome crew had darted eagerly forth as if imperiously summoned, and on the other side of the earth poets and artists had begun to dream of a strange, dank Cyclopean city whilst a young sculptor had moulded in his sleep the form of the dreaded Cthulhu.

Those efforts had been in vain, since Armitage had issued warnings of the keenest intensity to all librarians having charge of the dreaded volume.

At other times he would call for the dreaded Necronomicon and the Daemonolatreia of Remigius, in which he seemed hopeful of finding some formula to check the peril he conjured up.

In the final layer of legends--the layer just preceding the decline of superstition and the abandonment of close contact with the dreaded places--there are shocked references to hermits and remote farmers who at some period of life appeared to have undergone a repellent mental change, and who were shunned and whispered about as mortals who had sold themselves to the strange beings.

I honestly dreaded the coming discussions which were to link me with such alien and forbidden worlds.

But all these precautions came late in the day, so that Gilman had some terrible hints from the dreaded Necronomicon of Abdul Alhazred, the fragmentary Book of Eibon, and the suppressed Unaussprechlicken Kulten of von Junzt to correlate with his abstract formulae on the properties of space and the linkage of dimensions known and unknown.

He dreaded to cross the bridge that gave a view of the desolate island in the Miskatonic, so went over the Peabody Avenue bridge.

Gilman listened as he nodded, his preternaturally sharpened hearing seeming to strain for some subtle, dreaded murmur beyond the noises in the ancient house.