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dread

If you dread something which may happen, you feel very anxious and unhappy about it because you think it will be unpleasant or upsetting. ^{害怕; 担忧}

verb [vt. 及物动词]畏惧，担心；<古>敬畏

I dreaded coming back, to be honest. ^{老实说，我很害怕回来。}

noun [抽象名词]害怕，畏惧；令人生畏的人，可怕的事物；（鸥鸟等鸟群的）惊飞，惊起；<英，非正式>将头发编成“骇人”发型的人，拉斯塔法里派成员

Dread is a feeling of great anxiety and fear about something that may happen. ^{忧虑; 恐惧}

adjective [原级]令人生畏的，可怕的；恼火的，生气的

If you say that you dread to think what might happen, you mean that you are anxious about it because it is likely to be very unpleasant. ^不敢想

dread 出现在下面的课文中: Lesson 29 Funny or not? dread 动词: 惧怕; Lesson 54 Instinct or cleverness?

n. 恐惧；可怕的人（或物）

单词造句:

v./n. 害怕

dread doing sth. ^{害怕做某事}

I dread being sick.
He dreaded having to spend Christmas in hospital.

live in dread of ... ^{一直害怕sth.}

The committee members live in dread of anything that may cause a scandal.
We live in dread not only of unpleasant insects like spiders or wasps, but of quite harmless ones like moths. ^NCE3-54