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.

Terrible; greatly feared; dreaded. / (archaic) Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.

(transitive) To fear greatly. / To anticipate with fear. / (intransitive) To be in dread, or great fear. / (transitive) To style (the hair) into dreadlocks.

simple past tense and past participle of dread

Causing fear, dread, or terror. / Wearing dreadlocks.

(colloquial) dreadlocks

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dread

(informal) Dreadfully.

A shocker: a report of a crime written in a provokingly lurid style. / A journal or broadsheet printing such reports. / A shocking or sensational crime.

Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming; dangerous, risky. / (hyperbolic) Unpleasant, awful, very bad (also used as an intensifier). / (obsolete) Awesome, awe-inspiring, causing feelings of reverence.