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dire Adjective disastrous, urgent, or terrible: he was now in dire financial straits [Latin dirus ominous]
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dire adjective desperate, pressing, crying, critical, terrible, crucial, alarming, extreme, awful, appalling, urgent, cruel, horrible, disastrous, grim, dreadful, gloomy, fearful, dismal, drastic, catastrophic, ominous, horrid, woeful, ruinous, calamitous, cataclysmic, portentous, godawful (slang) exigent, bodeful Translations |
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| The Spaniel stopped short in dire consternation, and, after regarding the Bulldog a moment from a safe distance, said: But Oedipus spurns the hypocrite, and invokes a dire curse on both his unnatural sons. how chang'd From him, who in the happy Realms of Light Cloth'd with transcendent brightnes didst outshine Myriads though bright: If he whom mutual league, United thoughts and counsels, equal hope, And hazard in the Glorious Enterprize, Joynd with me once, now misery hath joynd In equal ruin: into what Pit thou seest From what highth fal'n, so much the stronger provd He with his Thunder: and till then who knew The force of those dire Arms? |
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