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Discover LudwigThe word 'dread' is both correct and commonly used in written English
It is defined as a feeling of great fear or apprehension. Example: She was filled with dread at the thought of having to speak in front of a large audience.
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Dread
adjective
Terrible; greatly feared.
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Closing down the web's biggest drug shop has simply cleared the way for competitorsROSS ULBRICHT, better known by his online pseudonym, "Dread Pirate Roberts", was sentenced to life in prison on May 29th for his part in running the Silk Road, a now-defunct website which was once the eBay of illegal drugs.
But instead of feeling vindication, or at least relief for having told their stories, some of these women are now filled with dread, because Kevin Donovan – the Toronto Star investigative reporter with whom I reported the allegations against Ghomeshi – is writing a "tell-tale, behind the scenes" book about Ghomeshi's "secret life".
The dread behind his secret revelation – so feared, it drove him to kill – was that its discovery would make him hated, marked, a social pariah.
Related: Civil service morale: 'You dread going into work in the mornings' She is also quick to point out the business case for equality and fairness.
We dread the jihadi radicalism that seeps from the Middle East into Europe.
Yet there it is, the sad carpet of an unrenovated Centrelink, the banks of check-in counters that inspire a special feeling of dread (what if I am not checked in 45 minutes beforehand? What if my luggage is 50 grams overweight?
In the streets and pubs and dusty camps of Alice Springs there were whispers and dread and fury; some heard rumours of white men fleeing the scene; others warned of riot and revenge.
We all dread those conversations with angry parents.
There's no creeping sense of violent dread that Dot Allison's incredible voice cannot soothe.
The highlight is a night of bass dread from Andy Stott, Untold and Inga Copeland (Village Underground, EC2, Fri), but there's an embarrassment of riches: Andrew Weatherall and Mental Overdrive explore the power of reverb (16 Mar); Matthew Bourne revisits Kraftwerk's Radio-Activity (20 Mar), and Batida lead a night exploring how tropical styles are increasingly deploying banging software (19 Mar).
A significant component of Men's Health's rise was surely their realisation that so many men secretly share my dread of the expanding stomach.
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