Usually means: Feared intensely; regarded with apprehension.
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  1. dreaded: Merriam-Webster
  2. dreaded: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dreaded: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dreaded: Vocabulary.com
  5. Dreaded, dreaded: Wordnik
  6. dreaded: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. dreaded: Wiktionary
  8. Dreaded, dreaded: Dictionary.com
  9. dreaded: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Dreaded: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. dreaded: Rhymezone
  12. Dreaded: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. dreaded: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. dreaded: FreeDictionary.org
  15. dreaded: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. dreaded: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. dreaded: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. dreaded: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dreaded: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dreaded: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Dreaded, dreaded: Urban Dictionary

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adjective:  Causing fear, dread, or terror.
adjective:  Having or wearing dreadlocks.

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