Betekenis van:
dread
dread
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
- vrees inboezemend; vrees of ontzag inboezemend
- causing fear or dread or terror
"the dread presence of the headmaster"
"polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"
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dread
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
- eng; huiveringwekkend; onbetrouwbaar en griezelig; huiveringwekkend; angstig makend
- causing fear or dread or terror
"the dread presence of the headmaster"
"polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"
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to dread
Werkwoord
- opzien, aanhikken, opkijken
- be afraid or scared of; be frightened of
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dread
Zelfstandig naamwoord
- inzicht vooraf
- fearful expectation or anticipation
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Voorbeeldzinnen
- They live in constant dread of floods.
- Why do you think animals dread fire?
- Cats have a dread of water.
- He may dread to learn the results.
- He is in constant dread of his father.
- What I dread most is to get into a rut.
- When in Sydney, I went one Sunday morning to bathe. I was accompanied by a friend who had just arrived from the South Sea Islands. He was very timid, and clung to the rock, never going beyond a few yards from it, and instantly returning. Upon rallying him, he confessed his great dread of sharks.
- There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.