Adapted or likely to excite terror, awe, or dread; dreadful; formidable.
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of Alarm
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of Alarm
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Bade.
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Bade.
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Beyond or out of the common order or method; not usual, customary, regular, or ordinary; as, extraordinary evils; extraordinary remedies.
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Beyond or out of the common order or method; not usual, customary, regular, or ordinary; as, extraordinary evils; extraordinary remedies.
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Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought.
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Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought.
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Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.
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Extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness; as, atrocious quilt or deeds.
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Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene.
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Ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens.
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Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day.
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To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.
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of Dread
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Full of dread or terror; fearful.
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Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.
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Frightful; causing fear.
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of Frighten
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Full of fright; affrighted; frightened.
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Fearful; frightful.
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Causing horror; frightful.
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Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.
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Serious in feeeling or manner; sedate; grave; austere; not light, lively, or cheerful.
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Fitted to excite fear or terror; such as may astonish or terrify by its magnitude, force, or violence; terrible; dreadful; as, a tremendous wind; a t…
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Not speakable; incapable of being uttered or adequately described; inexpressible; unutterable; ineffable; as, unspeakable grief or rage.
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Having a wick; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a two-wicked lamp.
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