Meaning of dreaded in English

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  1. Pronunciation
  2. Classifying Adjective
    1. Definitions

  1. Pronunciation

    /ˈdrɛdəd/

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  1. Classifying Adjective

    dreaded

    Definitions

    1. causing fear or dread or terror

    Examples

    • « the awful war »
    • « an awful risk »
    • « dire news »
    • « a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked »
    • « the dread presence of the headmaster »
    • « polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was »
    • « a dreadful storm »
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  • « Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. »
    James Madison
  • « This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. »
    Carroll Quigley
  • « It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. »
    Epictetus
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