DREAD

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dread I. verb A. tranzitiv

a se teme de, a privi cu groază, a se înspăimânta de.

dread I. verb B. intranzitiv

a se teme, a se înspăimânta.

dread II. substantiv

spaimă, teamă, frică.

dread III. adjectiv (înv. poetic) v. dreaded.

My dread was lest he should turn his head, and see her too.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Somehow, I do not dread being alone to-night, and I can go to sleep without fear.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

I need not say that I had my own reasons for dreading his coming: but come he did at last.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Beth is well and happy, and I mustn't wish her back, but I dread the going home, much as I long to see them all.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

I dreaded to behold this monster, but I feared still more that Henry should see him.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“You drew back and came forward with your eyes upon my book there, like the mouse who sniffs the cheese and yet dreads the trap.”

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Not that I am afraid of myself, but I dread other people's remarks.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

And this belief produced another dread.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

I shall now go away and live in dread of one event."

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

She had no dread of these two months.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)