[Ads-l] Day of the living "dread"

[Wilson Gray]

NYT.com:

"Insects are _dread_ enemies of any tree species."

http://goo.gl/PXZ070


It's been dekkids, since I've seen a use of the adjective, _dread_, once
"standard," and not the use of the past participle, _dreaded_.

Needless to say, this instance is probably a hapax, but...

Youneverknow.

Maybe _dread_ as ADJ has "returned to life," to quote a phrase.
-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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