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Meaning of misdread | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2
mɪsˈdɹɛd

Definitions

To dread.

intransitive, obsolete, transitive

Examples

“Needs me then hope, or doth me need misdread?”
“To auoyd a mischiefe which he misdreaded.”
“and the Romanes likewise misdreaded that the Iewes should inuade their campe.”
“"Of that I misdreaded," said he, "for full well wist I that either he would rescue her or else he would die in the field; and, to say the truth, he had not been a man of worship had he not rescued the Queen, [...]"”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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