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dread

  [dred]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of: to dread death.
2. to be reluctant to do, meet, or experience: I dread going to big parties.
3. Archaic. to hold in respectful awe.
–verb (used without object)
4. to be in great fear.
–noun
5. terror or apprehension as to something in the future; great fear.
6. a person or thing dreaded.
7. dreads, Informal. dreadlocks.
8. Informal. a person who wears dreadlocks.
9. Archaic. deep awe or reverence.
–adjective
10. greatly feared; frightful; terrible.
11. held in awe or reverential fear.
Origin:
1125–75; ME dreden (v.), OE drǣdan, aph. var. of adrǣdan, ondrǣdan; c. OHG intrātan to fear

Related forms:
dread⋅a⋅ble, adjective
dreadness, noun

Synonyms:
5. See fear. 10. dire, dreadful, horrible.

Antonyms:
1. welcome.
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Word Origin & History

dread 
c.1175, from O.E. ondrædan "counsel or advise against," also "fear," from on- "against," second element of uncertain origin; prefix wore off after 12c. Dreadlocks first recorded 1960, so called from the dread they presumably aroused in beholders, but Rastafarian dread (1974) also has a sense of "fear of the Lord," expressed in part as alienation from contemporary society.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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