dread
noun
- 1
fearful expectation or anticipation
the student looked around the examination room with apprehension
adjective
- 1
causing fear or dread or terror
the awful war
an awful risk
verb
- 1
be afraid or scared of; be frightened of
I fear the winters in Moscow
We should not fear the Communists!
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