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Definition for DREAD
DRAZ'EL
DREAD
DREAD
, a.
Exciting great fear or apprehension. – Shak.
Terrible; frightful. – Shak.
Awful; venerable in the highest degree; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.
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