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English to English adjective
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Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful. | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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causing fear or dread or terror |
• 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
• a fearful howling
• horrendous explosions shook the city
• a terrible curse
source: wordnet30 noun
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fearful expectation or anticipation |
• the student looked around the examination room with apprehension
source: wordnet30
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Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror. | source: webster1913 verb
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be afraid or scared of; be frightened of |
• I fear the winters in Moscow
• We should not fear the Communists!
source: wordnet30
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To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension. | source: webster1913
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To be in dread, or great fear. | source: webster1913
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