dread

Object

• prospect: I would dread the prospect coming back to thousands of emails!
• thought: I think she was dreading the thought of walking all the way around the block the other way to get home.
• moment: The hours were long and lonely as I watched over him, hoping he would just slip away and yet, dreading the moment.

Converse of object

• inspire: Who would have thought those three little words could inspire dread to mums on maternity leave.
• feel: When my phone lights up I don't feel that niggling dread in the pit of my stomach anymore.

Adjective modifier

• nameless: Potential excellent reward for faultless maintenance was abruptly replaced by nameless dread.
• anxious: They flee the error of presuming on God only to fall into the trap of being gripped by an anxious dread of God.
• constant: In the Cold War, the constant dread of nuclear war was a fact of life.
• most: Most parents dread the letter home telling of the latest head lice epidemic at their child's school or nursery.

Modifies a noun

• disease: The goal is to reverse the spread of these dread diseases by 2015.
• sentence: The same dread sentence had been passed upon yet another brother there ( ch.
• word: Because play is interactive ( dread word, but wholly applicable in this example ).

Modifying Another Word

• absolutely: But I was absolutely dreading there would be a lot, lot more.
• rather: I rather dread him writing about the queer stuff.

Noun used with modifier

I: In fact I dread the thought of an early marriage.

Used with why or when

what: I can only dread what must have been going through the mind of the 12 year old child.

Infinitive complement

think: Blackpool I would dread to think what people think of Blackpool!

Present participle complement

go: I'm already dreading going to the shops in a couple of months, ' he said.

Preposition: of

• punishment: The dread of punishment will never make a Mason an accomplice in so corrupting his countrymen, nor a teacher of depravity and barbarity.
• death: Sophisticated intellectuals also speak of the dread of death.