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▸ verb: To anticipate with fear.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To be in dread, or great fear.
▸ verb: (transitive) To style (the hair) into dreadlocks.
▸ noun: Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
▸ noun: Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
▸ noun: Somebody or something dreaded.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A person highly revered.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Fury; dreadfulness.
▸ noun: A Rastafarian.
▸ adjective: Terrible; greatly feared; dreaded.
▸ adjective: (archaic) Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.
▸ noun: (slang, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of dreadlock. [A single strand of dreadlocks.]
▸ noun: (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.]
Similar:
fear,
alarming,
frightening,
fearful,
horrific,
terrible,
dreadful,
fearsome,
direful,
horrendous,
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great,
constant,
superstitious,
most,
vague,
mortal,
wholesome,
nameless,
instinctive,
nervous,
secret
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