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Meaning of dire
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dire
adj 1: fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless; "a
desperate illness"; "on all fronts the Allies were in a
desperate situation due to lack of materiel"-
G.C.Marshall; "a dire emergency" [syn: {desperate},
{dire}]
2: causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful
risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that
London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster";
"polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a
dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions
shook the city"; "a terrible curse" [syn: {awful}, {dire},
{direful}, {dread(a)}, {dreaded}, {dreadful}, {fearful},
{fearsome}, {frightening}, {horrendous}, {horrific},
{terrible}]
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