DREAD, DREADED
ADJECTIVES
► ADOUBTED dreaded; formidable → c1314 obs.
► ADRAD ► ADREAD put in dread, frightened, greatly afraid → c1200 obs.
► AWED dreaded, feared, revered → a1656 obs.
► BEDREAD dreaded → 1485 obs.
► DOUBTABLE to be dreaded → c1430 obs.
► DOUBTFUL to be dreaded or feared; awful → 1398 obs.
► POKERISH affected by feelings of dread; somewhat dangerous, alarming, dreadful →1827 Amer. dial.
► TIMOROUS causing dread or fear; dreadful, terrible →1455 obs.
► YDRED dreaded → 1340 obs.
NOUNS
► AWFUCK DISEASE the sense of dread that you feel the morning after doing something that you, upon reflection, wished you had not done → 2001 US sl.
► BACK-FEAR an intuitive dread of something sinister in the rear; an object of terror behind one → 1894 Sc.
► BLUE FEAR extreme nervousness or dread → 1801
► BLUE FUNK extreme nervousness or dread → 1854 sl.
► BOODIE-BO an object of dread; a bugbear → Bk1911 Sc.
► CREEPINGS shivery sensations from dread or cold → 1899 Amer. dial.
► CREMEUR dread → 1485 obs.
► DOUBT dread, apprehension, fear → a1225 obs.
► DOUBTANCE dread, fear → a1400 obs.
► DWERE doubt, dread → 1440 obs.
► EIR ► ERE dread, fear → 1808 Sc. obs.
► EYE dread, fear, terror → c1175 obs.
► GASTNESS dread, terror; terrified condition or appearance → c1374 obs.
► GRISING terror, horror, dread; loathing → 1225 obs.
► GRISNESS terror, horror, dread → 1398 obs.
► SAMUEL PEPYS ► SAMUELS a sensation of dread or unease → 1980s UK rhyming sl. for ‘the creeps’
► TERRICULAMENT a source or object of dread or terror, especially of needless dread; a bugbear → 1548 obs.
► UG dread, fear → a1240 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► UGGING dread, fear, horror, loathing → c1250
► UGLINESS dread, horror, loathing → c1325 obs.
► WHIM-WHAMS a feeling of dread or anxiety; a state of anxiety or nervousness; the jitters → 1950 US sl.
VERBS
► ADOUBT to dread, to fear → c1400 obs.
► ADRAD ► ADREAD to dread, to fear greatly → a900 obs.
► BEDOUBT to dread → 1470 obs.
► CURDLE THE BLOOD to afflict a person with dread; to terrify → 1760
► DARE to dread, to be in dismay, to tremble with fear, to lose heart → c1300 obs.
► DOUBT to dread, to fear, to be afraid of → c1225 obs.
► GRISE to dread, to abhor, to loathe → 1382 obs.
► HIDOUS to dread, to feel horror, to abhor → 1382 obs.
► UG to inspire or affect dread, loathing, or disgust → a1225 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– to feel dread or apprehension, disgust, or loathing → a1340 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
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