Dread is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DREAD in dictionary:

VERB:
• to fear greatly
• anticipate with great apprehension or fear
• regard with great awe or reverence
• anticipate with apprehension or fear
• To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.
• To be in dread, or great fear.
• be afraid or scared of; be frightened of
NOUN:
• great fear or apprehension
• a sudden take-off and flight of a flock of gulls or other birds
• a person with dreadlocks
• Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
• Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
• An object of terrified apprehension.
• A person highly revered.
• Fury; dreadfulness.
• Doubt; as, out of dread.
• fearful expectation or anticipation
• great fear
• dreadlocks
ADJECTIVE:
• inspiring fear
• greatly feared; dreadful
• regarded with awe; greatly revered
• Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful.
• Inspiring with reverential fear; awful\' venerable; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.
• causing fear or dread or terror
• awesome
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• frightening

Words related to DREAD

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Words that contain DREAD

adread8 dreads8 adreads9 dreaded10 dreader9 dreadly12 adreaded11 dreaders10 dreadest10 dreadful13 dreading11 misdread12 adreading12 dreadfuls14 dreadless11 dreadlock17 misdreads13 speedread13 undreaded12 dreadfully18 dreadlocks18 misdreaded15 speedreads14 undreading13 dreadlessly16 dreadlocked20 dreadnaught17 dreadnought17 misdreading16 dreadfulness17 dreadnaughts18 dreadnoughts18 speedreading17 dreadlessness15 dreadfulnesses19 dreadlessnesses17

How to use DREAD in a sentence

• She, who had never been reproved, shrank with a sickly dread from the idea of reproof.
• Pleading hard work as an excuse, Katherine avoided her after that evening, from a secret dread of any more confidences.
• It was awe without amazement, dread without distraction.
• They were wild, worthless fellows, and the people of Athens looked forward with dread to the day when the city should be in their power.
• Lanley grew to dread the visits of his huge, blond son-in-law, who used actually to sob in the library, and ask for explanations of something which Mr.
• The knowledge that he was to live, the lifting of the weight of dread, was enough.
• There was the feeling of confidence in facing the foe, which never left them, and there was the dread of punishment at his hands to keep them orderly.
• They had at first a mysterious dread of fire-arms, but familiarity is rapidly removing that.
• The future was dim and fraught with fear and dread, but the present belonged to them, and in that thought there was happiness despite everything.
• In vain! Memories of the near past, dread of the nearer future, contended in her soul, filling her with discord.
• Not for nothing had Annie lived through the stress she had before his birth, and from her circumstances, though not her nature, he drew that queer mingling of content and dread.
• The King is in constant dread of poison, and would do anything to get relieved from that dread, and all further importunity on the state of the country.
• There is not a particle of reserved force or dormant power or anything of the kind for you to dread.
• I dread to think of what she may do in the first reckless despair of the discovery that she has made.
• Those were standing on a broad foundation of contented reciprocity, and were the first to dread the tumult that could not fail to prove prejudicial.
• If it were the vast old sea, even the deep immensity of its dread bosom seemed to swell the higher, as if moved by the emotions of the song.
• I cannot make it seem a day to dread, When from this dear earth I shall journey out To that still dearer country of the dead, And join the lost ones, so long dreamed about.
• And this was not so much through fear of the living as through the dread they felt at seeing the dead man rise up to slay them.
• He felt that it was tall and stately when it came beside him, and that its mysterious presence filled him with a solemn dread.
• And this filled him, somehow, with the most abject dread and fear.
• The French fire had proved so murderous that the men had shrunk back in mortal dread.
• Dread of danger and fondness for their new life were their reasons for remaining inside the lines.
• They informed us that our native guide confessed to them that his dread of the savage natives had induced him to return.
• Beyond the window, looking in upon her, and knocking, knocking, knocking, stood the figure of her dread.
• On July 1 they closed the dread experience by a brilliant victory in the desperate, prolonged, and bloody battle of Malvern Hill.
• All eastern nations have an awful dread of European artillery.
• Suddenly his heart stood still in dread of what his aunt was about to say.
• Blood-red as risen from a sea of blood, The tardy sun as if in dread arose, And hid his face in the uprising smoke.
• The event was looked forward to with dread by the mother, but when the little one arrived she received a warm and loving welcome.
• He did not follow him, even with all this vague dread on his mind.
• We have stood by the cradle of the King, and seen the homage and the dread which surrounded it.

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