dread

IPA: drˈɛd

Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
Somebody or something dreaded.
(obsolete) A person highly revered.
(obsolete) Fury; dreadfulness.
A Rastafarian.
(slang, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of dreadlock. [A single strand of dreadlocks.]
(military, nautical, historical, slang) Clipping of dreadnought. [(military, nautical, historical) A battleship, especially of the World War I era, in which most of the firepower is concentrated in large guns that are of the same caliber.]

Examples of "dread" in Sentences

Our dread is to guard your poise, and to avoid intruding.
This sucks and really waiting in dread is so crushing to a mother.
Then the Master, stalking forward where the murderer shrinks in dread,
While the seamen, pointing fingers, shrink in dread, and cry, 'Turn back!'
She could be intensely cold-hearted towards enemies, and her children lived in dread of disappointing her.
Your hours will pass in dread and misery, and soon the bolt will fall which must ravish from you your happiness for ever.
But just like the unhappy parents, we watched in dread as the majority of voters, cheered on by the mainstream media, went ahead and married him anyway.
We the millions of uninsured Americans & others who cannot afford health insurance might as well go to some other planet or continue to live in dread of getting ill.
Our own Hemingway wrote so much grandiose nonsense about this so-called sport that the reader feels a certain dread as the climactic spectacle approaches — a dread heightened by the awareness that Montherlant was a matador in his teenage years.