"dread" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /dɹɛd/ Audio: en-us-dread.ogg [US] Forms: dreader [comparative], dreadest [superlative]
enPR: drĕd Rhymes: -ɛd Etymology: From Middle English drede, dredde, dradde, ydreddyd (“feared, dreaded, honoured”), past participle of Middle English dreden (“to fear, dread”). See above. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|drede}} Middle English drede, {{m|enm|dredde}} dredde, {{m|enm|dradde}} dradde, {{m|enm|ydreddyd|t=feared, dreaded, honoured}} ydreddyd (“feared, dreaded, honoured”), {{der|en|enm|dreden|t=to fear, dread}} Middle English dreden (“to fear, dread”) Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} dread (comparative dreader, superlative dreadest)
  1. Terrible; greatly feared; dreaded. Categories (topical): Fear Translations (terrible): grausig (German), schauderhaft (German), grauenerregend (German), grauenvoll (German), gräulich (German), fürchterlich (German)
    Sense id: en-dread-en-adj-0c5nyHGA Disambiguation of Fear: 20 11 11 7 3 0 18 5 1 1 6 8 5 2 Disambiguation of 'terrible': 94 6
  2. (archaic) Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe. Tags: archaic Categories (topical): Fear
    Sense id: en-dread-en-adj-k3Mp7gOo Disambiguation of Fear: 20 11 11 7 3 0 18 5 1 1 6 8 5 2
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: dreadly Related terms: dreadlocks, dreadnought
Etymology number: 3

Noun

IPA: /dɹɛd/ Audio: en-us-dread.ogg [US] Forms: dreads [plural]
enPR: drĕd Rhymes: -ɛd Etymology: From Middle English drede, dred, from the verb (see above). Cognate with Old Frisian drēd, drēde (“fear, dread”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|drede}} Middle English drede, {{m|enm|dred}} dred, {{cog|ofs|drēd}} Old Frisian drēd, {{m|ofs|drēde|t=fear, dread}} drēde (“fear, dread”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} dread (countable and uncountable, plural dreads)
  1. Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Fear Translations (great fear in view of impending evil): սարսափ (sarsapʿ) (Armenian), ահ (ah) (Armenian), սոսկում (soskum) (Armenian), страх (strah) [masculine] (Bulgarian), боя́зън (bojázǎn) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 恐怖 (kǒngbù) (Chinese Mandarin), hrůza [feminine] (Czech), vrees [feminine] (Dutch), doodsangst [feminine] (Dutch), kauhu (Finnish), pelko (Finnish), crainte [feminine] (French), pavor [masculine] (Galician), terror [masculine] (Galician), horror [masculine] (Galician), Grausen [neuter] (German), Schaudern [neuter] (German), Angst [feminine] (German), τρόμος (trómos) [masculine] (Greek), वहशत (vahśat) [feminine] (Hindi), सहम (saham) [masculine] (Hindi), rettegés (Hungarian), timore [masculine] (Italian), 恐怖 (kyōfu) (alt: きょうふ) (Japanese), formīdō [feminine] (Latin), timor [masculine] (Latin), metus [masculine] (Latin), dred (Middle English), drednesse (Middle English), ⁧وحشت⁩ (vahšat) (Persian), temor [masculine] (Portuguese), terror [masculine] (Portuguese), frică [feminine] (Romanian), teamă [feminine] (Romanian), temere [feminine] (Romanian), страх (strax) [masculine] (Russian), боя́знь (bojáznʹ) [feminine] (Russian), oillt [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), uamhann [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), uabhas [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), eagal [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), sgrath [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), pavor [masculine] (Spanish), temor [masculine] (Spanish), miedo (Spanish), terror (Spanish), horror (Spanish), alap-ap (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-dread-en-noun-YJZ~4i6~ Disambiguation of Fear: 20 11 11 7 3 0 18 5 1 1 6 8 5 2 Disambiguation of 'great fear in view of impending evil': 93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1
  2. Reverential or respectful fear; awe. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (respectful fear, awe): bázeň [feminine] (Czech), Ehrfurcht [feminine] (German), dred (Middle English), drednesse (Middle English)
    Sense id: en-dread-en-noun-~88LJmiA Disambiguation of 'respectful fear, awe': 8 75 3 2 1 2 4 5
  3. Somebody or something dreaded. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (somebody or something dreaded): 恐怖 (kǒngbù) (Chinese Mandarin), vystrašený [masculine] (Czech), gevreesde [feminine, masculine, person] (Dutch), gevreesde (english: thing) [neuter] (Dutch), kauhistus (Finnish), Gefürchtete [feminine, masculine] (German), Befürchtete [neuter] (German), τρόμος (trómos) [masculine] (Greek), terrível [masculine] (Portuguese), sperietoare [feminine] (Romanian)
    Sense id: en-dread-en-noun-E8nq40-P Disambiguation of 'somebody or something dreaded': 1 1 90 1 1 2 2 1
  4. (obsolete) A person highly revered. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-dread-en-noun-S56LvOUR
  5. (obsolete) Fury; dreadfulness. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable Categories (topical): Fear
    Sense id: en-dread-en-noun-KrPYLyz3 Disambiguation of Fear: 20 11 11 7 3 0 18 5 1 1 6 8 5 2
  6. A Rastafarian. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-dread-en-noun-yqlDNLur Disambiguation of People: 15 9 5 0 13 0 19 28 2 2 0 0 0 6
  7. (slang, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of dreadlock. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, in-plural, slang, uncountable Alternative form of: dreadlock
    Sense id: en-dread-en-noun-S4Hvj9Xs
  8. (military, nautical, historical, slang) Clipping of dreadnought. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, historical, slang, uncountable Alternative form of: dreadnought Categories (topical): Military, Nautical
    Sense id: en-dread-en-noun-5Qp72box Topics: government, military, nautical, politics, transport, war
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: dreaden, dread fascination, dreadful, dreadless, dreadsome, rent-a-dread
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /dɹɛd/ Audio: en-us-dread.ogg [US] Forms: dreads [present, singular, third-person], dreading [participle, present], dreaded [participle, past], dreaded [past]
enPR: drĕd Rhymes: -ɛd Etymology: From Middle English dreden, from Old English drǣdan (“to fear, dread”), aphetic form of ondrǣdan (“to fear, dread”), from Proto-West Germanic *andarādan, equivalent to Old English and- + rǣdan (whence read); corresponding to an aphesis of earlier adread. Akin to Old Saxon antdrādan, andrādan (“to fear, dread”), Old High German intrātan (“to fear”), Middle High German entrāten (“to fear, dread, frighten”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|dreden}} Middle English dreden, {{inh|en|ang|drǣdan|t=to fear, dread}} Old English drǣdan (“to fear, dread”), {{m|ang|ondrǣdan|t=to fear, dread}} ondrǣdan (“to fear, dread”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*andarādan}} Proto-West Germanic *andarādan, {{af|ang|and-|rǣdan|nocat=1}} and- + rǣdan, {{m|en|read}} read, {{m|en|adread}} adread, {{cog|osx|antdrādan}} Old Saxon antdrādan, {{m|osx|andrādan|t=to fear, dread}} andrādan (“to fear, dread”), {{cog|goh|intrātan|t=to fear}} Old High German intrātan (“to fear”), {{cog|gmh|entrāten|t=to fear, dread, frighten}} Middle High German entrāten (“to fear, dread, frighten”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} dread (third-person singular simple present dreads, present participle dreading, simple past and past participle dreaded)
  1. (transitive) To fear greatly. Tags: transitive Translations (to fear greatly so./sth.): druaj (Albanian), страху́вам се (strahúvam se) [imperfective] (Bulgarian), témer (Catalan), hrozit se [imperfective] (Czech), zhrozit se [perfective] (Czech), děsit se [imperfective] (Czech), mít hrůzu [imperfective] (Czech), vrezen (Dutch), schrik hebben (Dutch), bang zijn (Dutch), pelätä (Finnish), hirvittää (Finnish), redouter (French), craindre (French), temer (Galician), schaudern (German), grauen (German), φοβάμαι (fovámai) (Greek), retteg (Hungarian), adhfhuathaigh (Irish), temere (Italian), formīdō (Latin), vereor (Latin), timeo (Latin), whakarika (Maori), adreden (Middle English), dreden (Middle English), temer (Portuguese), teme (Romanian), боя́ться (bojátʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), बिभेति (bibheti) (Sanskrit), strahovati (Serbo-Croatian), temer (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-dread-en-verb-u98jjrfJ Disambiguation of 'to fear greatly so./sth.': 85 9 7 0
  2. To anticipate with fear. Translations (to anticipate with fear (that ...)): druaj (Albanian), опася́вам се (opasjávam se) [imperfective] (Bulgarian), hrozit se [imperfective] (Czech), obávat se (Czech), vrezen (Dutch), odottaa pelolla (Finnish), pelätä (Finnish), hirvittää (Finnish), redouter (French), craindre (French), gruseln (German), grausen (German), eine Gänsehaut bekommen / kriegen [idiomatic] (German), Blut und Wasser schwitzen [idiomatic] (German), bibbern (German), zittern (english: fig.) (German), Bammel haben [slang] (German), Schiss haben (english: profane) (German), φοβάμαι (fovámai) (Greek), vereor (Latin), dreden (Middle English), temer (Portuguese), опаса́ться (opasátʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), temer (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-dread-en-verb-ITCCKdci Disambiguation of 'to anticipate with fear (that ...)': 7 86 6 1
  3. (intransitive) To be in dread, or great fear. Tags: intransitive Translations (to be in great fear (intransitive)): fürchten (German), Angst haben (German), ängstigen (english: reflexive / exalted) (German), adreden (Middle English), dreden (Middle English)
    Sense id: en-dread-en-verb-W0t8Rhar Disambiguation of 'to be in great fear (intransitive)': 17 19 63 2
  4. (transitive) To style (the hair) into dreadlocks. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Hair
    Sense id: en-dread-en-verb-t~m9QOis Disambiguation of Hair: 10 8 5 2 7 3 13 10 4 4 1 2 0 30
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: a burnt child dreads the fire, the burnt child dreads the fire, dreadable, dreadworthy, dreadly
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

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          "lang": "Czech",
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          "_dis1": "85 9 7 0",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
          "word": "vrezen"
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          "_dis1": "85 9 7 0",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
          "word": "schrik hebben"
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          "_dis1": "85 9 7 0",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
          "word": "bang zijn"
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          "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
          "word": "pelätä"
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          "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
          "word": "redouter"
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          "_dis1": "85 9 7 0",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
          "word": "craindre"
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          "_dis1": "85 9 7 0",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
          "word": "temer"
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          "_dis1": "85 9 7 0",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
          "word": "schaudern"
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          "_dis1": "85 9 7 0",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
          "word": "grauen"
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          "_dis1": "85 9 7 0",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "fovámai",
          "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
          "word": "φοβάμαι"
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          "_dis1": "85 9 7 0",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
          "word": "retteg"
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          "_dis1": "85 9 7 0",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
          "word": "adhfhuathaigh"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 9 7 0",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
          "word": "temere"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 9 7 0",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
          "word": "formīdō"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 9 7 0",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
          "word": "vereor"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 9 7 0",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
          "word": "timeo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 9 7 0",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
          "word": "whakarika"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 9 7 0",
          "code": "enm",
          "lang": "Middle English",
          "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
          "word": "adreden"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 9 7 0",
          "code": "enm",
          "lang": "Middle English",
          "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
          "word": "dreden"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 9 7 0",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
          "word": "temer"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 9 7 0",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
          "word": "teme"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 9 7 0",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "bojátʹsja",
          "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "боя́ться"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 9 7 0",
          "code": "sa",
          "lang": "Sanskrit",
          "roman": "bibheti",
          "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
          "word": "बिभेति"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 9 7 0",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
          "word": "strahovati"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 9 7 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
          "word": "temer"
        }
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          "text": "I'm dreading getting the results of the test, as it could decide my whole life.",
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        "To anticipate with fear."
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          "_dis1": "7 86 6 1",
          "code": "sq",
          "lang": "Albanian",
          "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
          "word": "druaj"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 86 6 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "opasjávam se",
          "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "опася́вам се"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 86 6 1",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
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          "word": "hrozit se"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 86 6 1",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
          "word": "obávat se"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 86 6 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
          "word": "vrezen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 86 6 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
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        {
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
          "word": "pelätä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 86 6 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
          "word": "hirvittää"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 86 6 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
          "word": "redouter"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 86 6 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
          "word": "craindre"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 86 6 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
          "word": "gruseln"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 86 6 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
          "word": "grausen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 86 6 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
          "tags": [
            "idiomatic"
          ],
          "word": "eine Gänsehaut bekommen / kriegen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 86 6 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
          "tags": [
            "idiomatic"
          ],
          "word": "Blut und Wasser schwitzen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 86 6 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
          "word": "bibbern"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 86 6 1",
          "code": "de",
          "english": "fig.",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
          "word": "zittern"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 86 6 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
          "tags": [
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        {
          "_dis1": "7 86 6 1",
          "code": "de",
          "english": "profane",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
          "word": "Schiss haben"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 86 6 1",
          "code": "el",
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          "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
          "word": "φοβάμαι"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 86 6 1",
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          "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
          "word": "vereor"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 86 6 1",
          "code": "enm",
          "lang": "Middle English",
          "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
          "word": "dreden"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 86 6 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
          "word": "temer"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 86 6 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "opasátʹsja",
          "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
          "tags": [
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          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 86 6 1",
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          "lang": "Spanish",
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          "word": "temer"
        }
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          "_dis1": "17 19 63 2",
          "code": "de",
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          "word": "fürchten"
        },
        {
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          "code": "de",
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          "word": "Angst haben"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "17 19 63 2",
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to be in great fear (intransitive)",
          "word": "ängstigen"
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        {
          "_dis1": "17 19 63 2",
          "code": "enm",
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          "sense": "to be in great fear (intransitive)",
          "word": "adreden"
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        {
          "_dis1": "17 19 63 2",
          "code": "enm",
          "lang": "Middle English",
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          "word": "dreden"
        }
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            "Human",
            "Biology",
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            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
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}

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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "dreaden"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "dread fascination"
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      "word": "dreadsome"
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      "name": "cog"
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        },
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          "ref": "12 April 2014, Michael Inwood, “Martin Heidegger: the philosopher who fell for Hitler [print version: Hitler's philosopher]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), London, page R11",
          "text": "In 1928 [Martin] Heidegger succeeded [Edmund] Husserl to take a chair at Freiburg and in his inaugural lecture made a pronouncement that earned him a reputation as an archetypal metaphysician with his claim that our awareness of people as a whole depends on our experience of dread in the face of nothingness.",
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        [
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          "fearful"
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        [
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        ],
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        ],
        [
          "terror",
          "terror"
        ]
      ],
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      ],
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          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "hy",
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          "roman": "sarsapʿ",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "word": "սարսափ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "ah",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "word": "ահ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "soskum",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "word": "սոսկում"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "strah",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "страх"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "bojázǎn",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "боя́зън"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "kǒngbù",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "word": "恐怖"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "hrůza"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "vrees"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "word": "kauhu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "word": "pelko"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "crainte"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "pavor"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "terror"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "horror"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Grausen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Schaudern"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Angst"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "trómos",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "τρόμος"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "vahśat",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "वहशत"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "saham",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "सहम"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "word": "rettegés"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "timore"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "alt": "きょうふ",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "kyōfu",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "word": "恐怖"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "formīdō"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "metus"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "enm",
          "lang": "Middle English",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "word": "dred"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "enm",
          "lang": "Middle English",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "word": "drednesse"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "vahšat",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "word": "⁧وحشت⁩"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "temor"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "terror"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "frică"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "teamă"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "temere"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "strax",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "страх"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "bojáznʹ",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "боя́знь"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
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            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "oillt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "uabhas"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "eagal"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "sgrath"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "pavor"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "temor"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "word": "miedo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "word": "terror"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
          "word": "horror"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 3 1 1 0 0 1 1",
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
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      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "8 75 3 2 1 2 4 5",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "respectful fear, awe",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "bázeň"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 75 3 2 1 2 4 5",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "respectful fear, awe",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "_dis1": "8 75 3 2 1 2 4 5",
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          "word": "dred"
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        {
          "_dis1": "8 75 3 2 1 2 4 5",
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        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 90 1 1 2 2 1",
          "code": "cmn",
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          "roman": "kǒngbù",
          "sense": "somebody or something dreaded",
          "word": "恐怖"
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          "_dis1": "1 1 90 1 1 2 2 1",
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          "sense": "somebody or something dreaded",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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            "masculine",
            "person"
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          "word": "gevreesde"
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          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Gefürchtete"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 90 1 1 2 2 1",
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          "sense": "somebody or something dreaded",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Befürchtete"
        },
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          "_dis1": "1 1 90 1 1 2 2 1",
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          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
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          "_dis1": "1 1 90 1 1 2 2 1",
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            "masculine"
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          "_dis1": "1 1 90 1 1 2 2 1",
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            "feminine"
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        "A person highly revered."
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        "(obsolete) A person highly revered."
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        "uncountable"
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        {
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          "Fury",
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        "(obsolete) Fury; dreadfulness."
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        "countable",
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        "uncountable"
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        [
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        "countable",
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        {
          "ref": "2006, “Tell Me When To Go”, in Earl Stevens, Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels (lyrics), Lil Jon (music), My Ghetto Report Card",
          "text": "Jesus Christ had dreads / So shake 'em / I ain't got none / But I'm planning on growing some.",
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        "Clipping of dreadlock."
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        [
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        "(slang, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of dreadlock."
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          "kind": "topical",
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          "text": "The Royal Navy sent six dreads and four BCs to intercept the German raiding force.",
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        [
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        "(military, nautical, historical, slang) Clipping of dreadnought."
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      "ipa": "/dɹɛd/"
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          "ref": "1879, Arthur Sullivan, The Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert & Sullivan",
          "text": "With cat-like tread / Upon our prey we steal / In silence dread / Our cautious way we feel",
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        },
        {
          "text": "1980, Donald Fagen; Walter Becker (lyrics and music), \"Glamour Profession\" in Gaucho, track 3: \"Jack with his radar / Stalking the dread moray eel\""
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          "_dis1": "94 6",
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          "sense": "terrible",
          "word": "grausig"
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        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "terrible",
          "word": "schauderhaft"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "terrible",
          "word": "grauenerregend"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "terrible",
          "word": "grauenvoll"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "terrible",
          "word": "gräulich"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "terrible",
          "word": "fürchterlich"
        }
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          "ref": "1633, John Hay, editor, The Acts Made in the First Parliament of our Most High and Dread Soveraigne Charles, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c.: Holden by Himselfe, Present in Person, with His Three Estates, at Edinburgh, upon the Twentie Eight Day of Iune, Anno Domini 1633, Edinburgh: Printed by Robert Young, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, →OCLC",
          "text": "The acts made in the first Parliament of our most high and dread soveraigne Charles [I], by the grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. […] [book title]",
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        "(archaic) Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe."
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      "enpr": "drĕd"
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}
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    {
      "word": "the burnt child dreads the fire"
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    {
      "word": "dreadable"
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      "word": "dreadly"
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      "args": {
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        "To fear greatly."
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        "(transitive) To fear greatly."
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        "intransitive"
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    {
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      "ipa": "/dɹɛd/"
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    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "word": "druaj"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "strahúvam se",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "страху́вам се"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "word": "témer"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "hrozit se"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
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      "word": "zhrozit se"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
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      "word": "děsit se"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
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      "word": "mít hrůzu"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "word": "vrezen"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "word": "schrik hebben"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "word": "bang zijn"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "word": "vrezen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "word": "pelätä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "word": "hirvittää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "word": "redouter"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "word": "craindre"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "word": "temer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "word": "schaudern"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "word": "grauen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "fovámai",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "word": "φοβάμαι"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "word": "retteg"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "word": "adhfhuathaigh"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "word": "temere"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "word": "formīdō"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "word": "vereor"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "word": "timeo"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "word": "whakarika"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "word": "adreden"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "word": "dreden"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "word": "temer"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "word": "teme"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bojátʹsja",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "боя́ться"
    },
    {
      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "bibheti",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "word": "बिभेति"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "word": "strahovati"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to fear greatly so./sth.",
      "word": "temer"
    },
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
      "word": "druaj"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "opasjávam se",
      "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "опася́вам се"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "hrozit se"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
      "word": "obávat se"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
      "word": "vrezen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
      "word": "odottaa pelolla"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
      "word": "pelätä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
      "word": "hirvittää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
      "word": "redouter"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
      "word": "craindre"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
      "word": "gruseln"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
      "word": "grausen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "word": "eine Gänsehaut bekommen / kriegen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "word": "Blut und Wasser schwitzen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
      "word": "bibbern"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "english": "fig.",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
      "word": "zittern"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "word": "Bammel haben"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "english": "profane",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
      "word": "Schiss haben"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "fovámai",
      "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
      "word": "φοβάμαι"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
      "word": "vereor"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
      "word": "dreden"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
      "word": "temer"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "opasátʹsja",
      "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "опаса́ться"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to anticipate with fear (that ...)",
      "word": "temer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to be in great fear (intransitive)",
      "word": "fürchten"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to be in great fear (intransitive)",
      "word": "Angst haben"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "english": "reflexive / exalted",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to be in great fear (intransitive)",
      "word": "ängstigen"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "to be in great fear (intransitive)",
      "word": "adreden"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "to be in great fear (intransitive)",
      "word": "dreden"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dread"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "en:Fear",
    "en:Hair",
    "en:People"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "dreaden"
    },
    {
      "word": "dread fascination"
    },
    {
      "word": "dreadful"
    },
    {
      "word": "dreadless"
    },
    {
      "word": "dreadsome"
    },
    {
      "word": "rent-a-dread"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "drede"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English drede",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "dred"
      },
      "expansion": "dred",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ofs",
        "2": "drēd"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Frisian drēd",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ofs",
        "2": "drēde",
        "t": "fear, dread"
      },
      "expansion": "drēde (“fear, dread”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English drede, dred, from the verb (see above). Cognate with Old Frisian drēd, drēde (“fear, dread”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dreads",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "dread (countable and uncountable, plural dreads)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "My visit to the doctor is filling me with dread.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "12 April 2014, Michael Inwood, “Martin Heidegger: the philosopher who fell for Hitler [print version: Hitler's philosopher]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), London, page R11",
          "text": "In 1928 [Martin] Heidegger succeeded [Edmund] Husserl to take a chair at Freiburg and in his inaugural lecture made a pronouncement that earned him a reputation as an archetypal metaphysician with his claim that our awareness of people as a whole depends on our experience of dread in the face of nothingness.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fear",
          "fear"
        ],
        [
          "impending",
          "impending"
        ],
        [
          "evil",
          "evil"
        ],
        [
          "fearful",
          "fearful"
        ],
        [
          "apprehension",
          "apprehension"
        ],
        [
          "danger",
          "danger"
        ],
        [
          "anticipatory",
          "anticipatory"
        ],
        [
          "terror",
          "terror"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Reverential or respectful fear; awe."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Somebody or something dreaded."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dreaded",
          "dreaded"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person highly revered."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "revere",
          "revere"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A person highly revered."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Fury; dreadfulness."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Fury",
          "fury#English"
        ],
        [
          "dreadfulness",
          "dreadfulness"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Fury; dreadfulness."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A Rastafarian."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Rastafarian",
          "Rastafarian"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "dreadlock"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English clippings",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, “Tell Me When To Go”, in Earl Stevens, Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels (lyrics), Lil Jon (music), My Ghetto Report Card",
          "text": "Jesus Christ had dreads / So shake 'em / I ain't got none / But I'm planning on growing some.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Clipping of dreadlock."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dreadlock",
          "dreadlock#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of dreadlock."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "clipping",
        "countable",
        "in-plural",
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "dreadnought"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English clippings",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "en:Military",
        "en:Nautical"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The Royal Navy sent six dreads and four BCs to intercept the German raiding force.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Clipping of dreadnought."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "dreadnought",
          "dreadnought#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military, nautical, historical, slang) Clipping of dreadnought."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "clipping",
        "countable",
        "historical",
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "nautical",
        "politics",
        "transport",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dɹɛd/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛd"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-dread.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/32/En-us-dread.ogg/En-us-dread.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/En-us-dread.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "drĕd"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "sarsapʿ",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "word": "սարսափ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "ah",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "word": "ահ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "soskum",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "word": "սոսկում"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "strah",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "страх"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "bojázǎn",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "боя́зън"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "kǒngbù",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "word": "恐怖"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hrůza"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vrees"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "doodsangst"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "word": "kauhu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "word": "pelko"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "crainte"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pavor"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "terror"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "horror"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Grausen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Schaudern"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Angst"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "trómos",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "τρόμος"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "vahśat",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "वहशत"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "saham",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "सहम"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "word": "rettegés"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "timore"
    },
    {
      "alt": "きょうふ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kyōfu",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "word": "恐怖"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "formīdō"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "timor"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "metus"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "word": "dred"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "word": "drednesse"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "vahšat",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "word": "⁧وحشت⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "temor"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "terror"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "frică"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "teamă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "temere"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "strax",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "страх"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bojáznʹ",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "боя́знь"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "oillt"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "uamhann"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "uabhas"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "eagal"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sgrath"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pavor"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "temor"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "word": "miedo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "word": "terror"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "word": "horror"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "great fear in view of impending evil",
      "word": "alap-ap"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "respectful fear, awe",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bázeň"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "respectful fear, awe",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Ehrfurcht"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "respectful fear, awe",
      "word": "dred"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "respectful fear, awe",
      "word": "drednesse"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "kǒngbù",
      "sense": "somebody or something dreaded",
      "word": "恐怖"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "somebody or something dreaded",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vystrašený"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "somebody or something dreaded",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "person"
      ],
      "word": "gevreesde"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "english": "thing",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "somebody or something dreaded",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "gevreesde"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "somebody or something dreaded",
      "word": "kauhistus"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "somebody or something dreaded",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Gefürchtete"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "somebody or something dreaded",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Befürchtete"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "trómos",
      "sense": "somebody or something dreaded",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "τρόμος"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "somebody or something dreaded",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "terrível"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "somebody or something dreaded",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sperietoare"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dread"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "en:Fear",
    "en:Hair",
    "en:People"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "dreadly"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "drede"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English drede",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "dredde"
      },
      "expansion": "dredde",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "dradde"
      },
      "expansion": "dradde",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ydreddyd",
        "t": "feared, dreaded, honoured"
      },
      "expansion": "ydreddyd (“feared, dreaded, honoured”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "dreden",
        "t": "to fear, dread"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English dreden (“to fear, dread”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English drede, dredde, dradde, ydreddyd (“feared, dreaded, honoured”), past participle of Middle English dreden (“to fear, dread”). See above.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dreader",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dreadest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "er"
      },
      "expansion": "dread (comparative dreader, superlative dreadest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "dreadlocks"
    },
    {
      "word": "dreadnought"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1879, Arthur Sullivan, The Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert & Sullivan",
          "text": "With cat-like tread / Upon our prey we steal / In silence dread / Our cautious way we feel",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1980, Donald Fagen; Walter Becker (lyrics and music), \"Glamour Profession\" in Gaucho, track 3: \"Jack with his radar / Stalking the dread moray eel\""
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Terrible; greatly feared; dreaded."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Terrible",
          "terrible#English"
        ],
        [
          "greatly",
          "greatly"
        ],
        [
          "feared",
          "feared"
        ],
        [
          "dreaded",
          "dreaded"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1633, John Hay, editor, The Acts Made in the First Parliament of our Most High and Dread Soveraigne Charles, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c.: Holden by Himselfe, Present in Person, with His Three Estates, at Edinburgh, upon the Twentie Eight Day of Iune, Anno Domini 1633, Edinburgh: Printed by Robert Young, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, →OCLC",
          "text": "The acts made in the first Parliament of our most high and dread soveraigne Charles [I], by the grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. […] [book title]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Awe-inspiring",
          "awe-inspiring#English"
        ],
        [
          "fearful",
          "fearful"
        ],
        [
          "awe",
          "awe"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dɹɛd/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛd"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-dread.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/32/En-us-dread.ogg/En-us-dread.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/En-us-dread.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "drĕd"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "terrible",
      "word": "grausig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "terrible",
      "word": "schauderhaft"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "terrible",
      "word": "grauenerregend"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "terrible",
      "word": "grauenvoll"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "terrible",
      "word": "gräulich"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "terrible",
      "word": "fürchterlich"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dread"
}

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