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Definition of dread verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

 

dread

 verb
verb
NAmE//drɛd//
 
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they dread
 
he / she / it dreads
 
past simple dreaded
 
-ing form dreading
 
 
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to be very afraid of something; to fear that something bad is going to happen dread something This was the moment he had been dreading. dread doing something I dread being sick. dread somebody doing something She dreads her husband finding out. dread to do something I dread to think what would happen if there really was a fire here.
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