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      dreading
      noun
      Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
      Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
      Somebody or something dreaded.
      A Rastafarian.
      (slang, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of dreadlock. [A single strand of dreadlocks.]
      (obsolete) A person highly revered.
      (obsolete) Fury; dreadfulness.
      (military, nautical, historical, slang) Clipping of dreadnought. [(military, nautical, historical) A battleship, especially of the World War I era, in which most of the firepower is concentrated in large guns that are of the same caliber.]
      verb
      (transitive) To fear greatly.
      To anticipate with fear.
      (intransitive) To be in dread, or great fear.
      (transitive) To style (the hair) into dreadlocks.
      adjective
      Terrible; greatly feared; dreaded.
      (archaic) Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.
      Words related to dreading
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