1. dread

verb. ['ˈdrɛd'] be afraid or scared of; be frightened of.

Rhymes with Dread

• hilton-head
• widespread
• purebred
• interbred
• thoroughbred
• infrared
• sffed
• retread
• overhead
• overfed
• misread
• misled
• instead
• biomed
• unwed
• unted
• unsaid
• unread
• spread
• sayed
• numed
• imbed
• embed
• behead
• tread
• thread
• szwed
• swed
• stead
• sped

How do you pronounce dread?

Pronounce dread as drɛd.

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Sentences with dread

1. Verb, base form
Managers who have to tell employee after employee they've been downsized may come to dread their job.

2. Adjective
Scoop out a tiny bit of dread wax on the tip of your pinkie nail.

3. Noun, singular or mass
Repeat teasing and twisting until your hair forms a dread.

4. Verb, non-3rd person singular present
All cats and dogs dread the cone, but these cumbersome collars really are useful during postoperative care.

Quotes about dread

1. During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.
- Mika Waltari

2. I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.
- Edgar Allan Poe

3. Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.
- Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

2. dread

noun. ['ˈdrɛd'] fearful expectation or anticipation.

3. dread

adjective. ['ˈdrɛd'] causing fear or dread or terror.