Dread and Avoid

noun

• Fearful expectation or anticipation.
  • usage: "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
  • synonyms: apprehension, apprehensiveness

verb

• Be afraid or scared of; be frightened of.
  • usage: "I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists"
  • synonyms: fear

adjective

• Causing fear or dread or terror.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible

• (n.) A person highly revered.
• (n.) An object of terrified apprehension.
• (a.) Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful.
• (n.) Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
• (n.) Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
• (v.t.) To fear in a great degree; to regard or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.
• (n.) Doubt; as, out of dread.
• (a.) Inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.
• (n.) Fury; dreadfulness.
• (v.i.) To be in dread or great fear.

verb

• Stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something.
  • usage: "Her former friends now avoid her"
• Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening.
  • usage: "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike"
  • synonyms: debar, forefend, forfend, obviate, deflect, avert, head off, stave off, fend off, ward off
• Refrain from doing something.
  • usage: "She refrains from calling her therapist too often"; "He should avoid publishing his wife's memories"
• Refrain from certain foods or beverages.
  • usage: "I keep off drugs"; "During Ramadan, Muslims avoid tobacco during the day"
  • synonyms: keep off
• Declare invalid.
  • usage: "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"
  • synonyms: invalidate, annul, quash, void, nullify

• (a.) To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute.
• (a.) To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
• (v.i.) To become void or vacant.
• (a.) To get rid of.
• (a.) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters.
• (a.) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter.
• (a.) To empty.
• (v.i.) To retire; to withdraw.
• (a.) To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from.