Word Finder - dreaded

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To fear greatly.

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To anticipate with fear.

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I'm dreading getting the results of the test, as it could decide my whole life.

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To be in dread, or great fear.

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To style (the hair) into dreadlocks.

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Causing fear, dread or terror.

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I have got the dreaded flu.

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Wearing dreadlocks.

He dreaded stepping through it.

Opening her eyes, she saw the dreaded shadow world waiting for her.

She dreaded discovering what it was until he ripped it open to display woodchips.

The voice he'd dreaded hearing finally spoke.

I dreaded the darkness and loved the woodfire.

It was a tragic love story, one she knew the end to and dreaded seeing how it came to be that way.

Next week was her last in the cabin and she dreaded going back to face him again.

She paced along the rooftop, waiting for the dreaded vision to fade.

Pele in idolatrous times was the dreaded goddess of Kilauea.

While I dreaded frightening my wife further, I knew I owed her the information on the motor home.

Dean knew Fred O'Connor was scheduled for release and that necessitated a dreaded trip to the sheriff's office.

While I suppose we were pleased Howie was moving on, we dreaded the possible ramifications.

He'd dreaded his first steps on his planet, fearing it, too, would've lost faith in him.

These last days I've begun to understand this and come to the dreaded decision of what is to become of me.

She dreaded telling them.

He was afraid of any want of clearness, any weakness, in the Mason's arguments; he dreaded not to be able to believe in him.

I almost dreaded returning to the motel where awaited what I saw as the last thread of hope.

In the first place, the people generally dreaded the recurrence of ecclesiastical tyranny.

Suspecting it had belonged to the goddess who was Death, Wynn still wasn't expecting anyone in their right mind to revive the most dreaded of the deities.

So greatly was this dreaded by sailors that the principal line of traffic from the north of the Aegean to Athens used to pass by Chalcis and the Euboic Sea.

The four main instruments of the reaction were the papacy, which had done so much by its sympathy with the revival to promote the humanistic spirit it now dreaded, the strength of Spain, and two Spanish institutions planted on Roman soil - the Inquisition and the Order of Jesus.

A dreaded foe be thou, kindhearted as a man, A Rhipheus at home, a Caesar in the field!

With every step up to the office where Señor Medena waited, he dreaded the conversation.

Most of these are venomous, but all are not equally dreaded.

On those who refused to submit to their decisions they had the power of inflicting severe penalties, of which excommunication from society was the most dreaded.

These legends should perhaps be interpreted as pointing to a black snake ailed muss being those most dreaded.

Many of the janissaries had married and settled on the land, forming a strongly conservative and fanatical caste, friendly to the Moslem nobles, who now dreaded the curtailment of their own privileges.

The speech is unfortunately lost, but Gibbon, who heard it, told his friend Holroyd (afterwards Earl of Sheffield) that Fox, "taking the vast compass of the question before us, discovered powers for regular debate which neither his friends hoped nor his enemies dreaded."

Elizabeth resisted the demand, not from compassion or qualms of conscience, but because she dreaded the responsibility for Mary's death.

Nearly all men of high caste, and many of them recruited from Oudh, they dreaded tendencies which they deemed to be denationalizing, and they knew at first hand what annexation meant.

After the insurrection of 1865, he created a special bulwark for his defence, and invented that secret police which grew into the notorious "Third Section" of the emperor's own chancery, and while it lasted, was the most dreaded power in the empire.

But as the most dreaded of these Celtic tribes came down from the shores of the Baltic and Northern Ocean, the ancients applied the name Celt to those peoples who are spoken of as Teutonic in modern parlance.

Many pagan beliefs linger on in the country, where vampires, witches and the evil eye are dreaded by all.

Among the ophidians, which include many harmless species, are the boa-constrictor, rattlesnake, the dreaded Lachesis and the coral snake.

We want to make Ireland loyal and contented; we want to get rid of pauperism in this country; we want to fight against a class which is more to be dreaded than the holders of a 7 franchise - I mean the dangerous class in our large towns.

Hence the joint rule of Pompey and Caesar was not unwillingly .accepted, and anything like a rupture between the two was greatly dreaded as the sure beginning of anarchy throughout the Roman world.

The Boers of the Transvaal were then beginning to occupy the regions adjacent to Swaziland and in 1855 the Swazis in order to get a strip of territory between themselves and the Zulus, whose power they still dreaded, ceded to the Boers the narrow strip of land north of the Pongola river now known as the Piet Retief district.

Lord Acton, who was in complete sympathy on this subject with Ddllinger (q.v.), went to Rome in order to throw all his influence against it, but the step he so much dreaded was not to be averted.

The predominance of the Church of England was the prime article of their political creed; they dreaded the Roman Catholics; they hated and despised the dissenters.

Whatever be the truth in the assertion that death rather than sin is the enemy dreaded by Eastern Christianity, and immortality rather than forgiveness the blessing craved, it is difficult to take the talk about deification as anything more than rhetoric. Did they not start from belief in one God ?

Emin Pasha stated that the lion was so little dreaded by the Latuka that on one being caught in a leopard trap they hastily set it free.

The king and queen, however, who looked for help from abroad and especially from Leopold, dreaded a war with Austria and had no faith in the schemes of Narbonne.

The Girondins condemned the September massacres and dreaded the Parisian populace.

The dreaded name of Whiteboy was first heard in 1761; and agrarian crime has never since been long absent.

His procedure was essentially lawyer-like, for he respected the House of Commons and dreaded revolutionary violence.

Immediately on the expiration of his sentence (13th April 1713) he was instituted to the valuable rectory of St Andrew's, Holborn, by the new Tory ministry, who despised the author of the sermons, although they dreaded his influence over the mob.

In the meantime Philip II., being rid of Don John of Austria, whose ambition he dreaded, was to crush the Protestants of England and the Netherlands; and the double result of the compact at Joinville was to allow French politics to be controlled by Spain, and to transform the wars of religion into a purely political quarrel.

Amid general silence it was a formidable and much dreaded body of opinion; and in order to stifle it Louis XIV., the tool of his confessor, the Jesuit Le Tellier, made use of his usual means.

A parvenu of the middle classes, he was brutal in his treatment of the lower orders and a sycophant in his behaviour towards the powerful; prodigiously active, ill-obeyedas was the custombut much dreaded.

The papacy dreaded their social even more than their dogmatic influence.