polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was.
Examples of dreaded
dreaded
There were stealth gophers, Viking raider gophers and the dreaded ninja gophers.
From the sfgate.com
So, is this the first small leak in the long-dreaded popping of the bond bubble?
From the stltoday.com
What child hasn't dreaded September, the end of summer and the return to school.
From the online.wsj.com
On Father's Day, 2008, she placed the call that she both longed for and dreaded.
From the courier-journal.com
Getting the bill from the IRS would become a dreaded moment for business owners.
From the thenewstribune.com
Plus, it grew hotter every day and we dreaded a fight in the extreme Iraqi heat.
From the atwar.blogs.nytimes.com
Those are the phone calls both dreaded and hoped for among the families of Sept.
From the timesunion.com
I care that he makes the 3-point shot at the buzzer to beat the dreaded Celtics.
From the ocregister.com
Daly Cherry-Evans has managed to avoid the dreaded second-year syndrome in 2012.
From the couriermail.com.au
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Awful: 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 ...
(dread) apprehension: fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
(dread) fear: be afraid or scared of; be frightened of; "I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!"
(Dread (album)) Dread is a live album by Living Colour released only in Japan in 1994. It contains live recordings from the Stain tour, an acoustic radio session and two B-sides. ...
(Dread (film)) Dread is a 2009 horror film directed by Anthony DiBlasi and starring Jackson Rathbone, Shaun Evans and Hanne Steen, based on the short story of the same name by Clive Barker. The story was originally published in 1984 in volume two of Barker's Books of Blood short story collections.
(dread) A great fear; Somebody or something dreaded; A Rastafarian; dreadlock; To fear greatly; To anticipate with fear; Terrible; greatly feared; Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe
(Dread) dreadnought class vessel, capital ship used for taking down POSs
(DREAD) 1. a person with dreadlocks
(Dread) The feeling of not being able to deflect (certainly not without effort) a certain identifiable threat.