English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "vreeslik" veroorsaak of ontlok groot vrees, vrees of verskrikking; uiters sleg, onaangenaam of minderwaardig; baie ernstig of betekenisvol. Dit kan ook gebruik word om iets te beskryf wat baie onaangenaam, onaangenaam of aanstootlik is.

Sentence Examples

  1. He turns his back forever upon those dreadful shrubberies and flees as from the wrath to come.
  2. Occasionally, a verse or two of the dreadful ditty carried through the caves to wake Kallan or lull her to sleep.
  3. She and Sant ate boxed chow mein, too entwined with Dryden to close the shutters on his dreadful fate.
  4. But my very feelings changed to repulsion and terror when I saw the whole man slowly emerge from the window and begin to crawl down the castle wall over that dreadful abyss, face down with his cloak spreading out around him like great wings.
  5. If I be sane, then surely it is maddening to think that of all the foul things that lurk in this hateful place the Count is the least dreadful to me that to him alone I can look for safety, even though this be only whilst I can serve his purpose.
  6. A dreadful spectacle, it was illuminated better than a Premier League stadium.
  7. Those eyes, those dreadful, lifeless eyes, bulbous and bulging like polished, black stones that could pierce through any darkness.
  8. When I thought about having to look at that dreadful tweed blazer over drinks or at a football game, I had the obvious answer.
  9. This was all so strange and uncanny that a dreadful fear came upon me, and I was afraid to speak or move.
  10. She set to healing the dreadful wound in his back and found a festering one on his leg.