Translations for „dreaded“ in the English » German Dictionary

dread·ed [ˈdredɪd] ADJ attr

1. dreaded form (feared):

dreaded

gefürchtet

2. dreaded hum iron:

dreaded

gefürchtet hum iron

I've got my dreaded cousin coming to stay!

mein schrecklicher Cousin kommt zu Besuch!

dread·ed ˈlur·gy N Brit, Aus hum iron inf

the dreaded lurgy

eine lästige Krankheit (als Ausrede für etwas)

I . dread [dred] VB trans

1. dread (fear greatly):

to dread sth

sich acc vor etw dat sehr fürchten

to dread sth

vor etw dat große Angst haben

to dread doing sth

große Angst haben, etw zu tun

to dread that ...

sich acc sehr davor fürchten, dass ...

to dread that ...

große Angst davor haben, dass ...

I dread to think what would happen if ...

ich wage gar nicht daran zu denken, was geschehen würde, wenn ...

2. dread (look forward to with fear):

to dread sth

vor etw dat Angst haben

to dread sth

sich acc vor etw dat fürchten

he's dreading his driving test

er hat Angst vor der Fahrprüfung

to dread doing sth

Angst davor haben, etw zu tun

I'm dreading having to ring her

ich traue mich gar nicht, sie anzurufen inf

II . dread [dred] N no pl

dread

Furcht f

dread

[große] Angst

to be [or stand] [or live] in dread of sth

in [ständiger] Angst vor etw dat leben

to fill sb with dread

jdn mit Angst und Schrecken erfüllen

III . dread [dred] ADJ attr liter

dread

fürchterlich

dread

schrecklich

dread

furchtbar

the dread spectre of civil war

das Schreckgespenst eines Bürgerkrieges

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

I've got my dreaded cousin coming to stay!

mein schrecklicher Cousin kommt zu Besuch!

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Other diners may give you the dreaded stink eye for bringing your children along.

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It wasn't that they just disliked the loss of summer freedom and the coming regimentation of classes, they literally dreaded the return to school.

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Turns out the baked potato, our go-to easy dinner, has been helping us fight off the dreaded lurgy.

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Much of the time goes to removing staples and other fasteners that cause the dreaded paper jams.

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Dickens wrote of it that it was dreaded by even the most dauntless highwaymen and bearable only to toads and rats.

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All dreaded it, all sought to avert it.

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As a result, the process was feared, dreaded, and often went unmentioned in diaries from the period.

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Its dreaded name soon became a byword for the largely unspoken horrifying events known or presumed to taken place within its walls.

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Debates are about style, comportment, authority, the occasional zinger and the dreaded gaffe.

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Public-health physicians and politicians typically blamed both the poor themselves and their ramshackle tenement houses (conventillos) for the spread of the dreaded disease.

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