The Clue
Great fear (5 letter answer)
The Answer
DREAD
Tags
Notes
The answer DREAD is common and appears about once every 325 puzzles.
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Definition
DREAD as a noun:
1. (apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread) = fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
DREAD as a verb:
1. (fear, dread) = be afraid or scared of; be frightened of; "I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!"
DREAD as an adjective:
1. (awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible) = 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 explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"