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Dreaded definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DREADED, pp. Feared.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dread Dread, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dreaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Dreading.] [AS. dr?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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Dreaded means terrible and greatly feared. No one knew how to treat this dreaded disease. ADJ: ADJ n 2. You can use the dreaded to describe something that you, or a particular group of people, find annoying, inconvenient, or undesirable. (INFORMAL) She's a victim of the dreaded hay fever... ADJ: ADJ n [feelings]