DREADING

Definition: DREADING

DREADING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Dread

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "DREADING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Play	Caption
	Hot under the collar; anxious; afraid; aghast; antsy; apprehensive; basket case; bugged; butterflies; careful; choked; clutched; concerned; disquieted; distressed; disturbed; dreading; fearful; fidgety; fretful; hacked; hyper; in suspense; jittery; jumpy.
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Author	Quotation
Lord Byron	Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.
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"DREADING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DREADING" is used about 110 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	100%	110	30,952

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "DREADING": death-dreading, half-dreading.
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Language		Translations for "DREADING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		畏惧 (Dreaded). (various references)

German		fürchtend (awing, fearing). (various references)

Korean		두� �워함 (Awing). (various references)

Pig Latin		eadingdray
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"DREADING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: derating, Deryabin, greading. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "DREADING" (pronounced dre"ding)
5	-r e" d i ng	breading, reading, Redding, retreading, shredding, spreading, threading, treading.
4	-e" d i ng	bedding, beheading, heading, shedding, sledding, wedding.
3	-d i ng	abiding, abounding, acceding, according, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, amending, applauding, apprehending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, banding, beholding, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, cording, corresponding, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, degrading, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, eluding, encoding, ending, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, fending, feuding, Fielding, finding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guarding, guiding, handholding, handing, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masquerading, masterminding, Melding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, nonbuilding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, parading, pending, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, precluding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, rebounding, rebuilding, receding, recommending, recording, Reding, refunding, regarding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retarding, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, safeguarding, sanding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, sending, serenading, shading, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, speeding, spellbinding, spending, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, tiding, trading, transcending, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unfolding, unloading, unwinding, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, upstanding, vending, voiding, wading, warding, weeding, welding, wending, wielding, Wilding, winding, withholding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding, yielding.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: readding.
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-g-i-n-r"
	-1 letter: dandier, deraign, drained, gradine, grained, grinded, radding, reading, redding.
	-2 letters: adding, dander, danged, danger, daring, darned, denari, dinged, dinger, earing, engird, gadder, gained, gainer, gander, garden, girded, girned, graded, gradin, grided, raided, rained, ranged, reagin, reding, regain, regina, ridden, ridged, rinded, ringed.
	-3 letters: adder, aided, aider, aired, anger, dared, deair, deign, denar, dinar.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-g-i-n-r"
	+1 letter: dandering, degrading, deraigned, hagridden, laddering, niggarded.
	+2 letters: addressing, daundering, defrauding, denigrated, resaddling, unabridged.
	+3 letters: aggrandised, aggrandized, daydreaming, degradation, degradingly, dehydrating, depredating, disarranged, dispreading, gormandised, gormandized, grandaddies, intergraded, readdicting, redemanding, superadding.
	+4 letters: biodegrading, degradations, degringolade, desiderating, disorganized, disregarding, gourmandized, granddaddies, readdressing, rededicating, undischarged.
	+5 letters: breadboarding, degringolades, dendrological, disintegrated, gingerbreaded, grandchildren, misaddressing, overdemanding, predesignated, propagandized, redintegrated, understanding, undiscouraged.
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