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(adj) horrendous, horrific, awful, dire, direful, dreaded, dreadful, frightening, fearful, fearsome, terrible
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
(noun) apprehension, apprehensiveness
fearful expectation or anticipation
the student looked around the examination room with apprehension
(verb) fear
be afraid or scared of; be frightened of
I fear the winters in Moscow; We should not fear the Communists!