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dire

(= desperate) 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 (= awful, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, horrendous, terrible) 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

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Exporters are in dire straights.
The world is in dire need of those who think in a more open-minded way.
The situation is dire.
I'm in dire need of money.
Why is it that no one listens to me or takes me seriously during dire times?
Tom wasted his chance. Now he has to bear the consequences, and they will be dire.
The situation is becoming more and more dire for me.
Tom called the situation dire.
A dire tragedy has befallen me.

Movie subtitles

Student Balduin, in order to ease the dire straits of the student body, has donated permanent support for 100 students.
Now is the time of help; your eye in Scotland would create soldiers, make our women fight, to doff their dire distresses.
The events my spirit saw lurk as dire possibilities.
Inutile dire che Mr Talbot ha un grandissimo. - Mr Talbot your call to Rome.
Failing to find employment and with little to do, he finds himself in dire straits and believes he can endure it no further.
Master Motome Chijiiwa. rather than sit and wait for death in dire poverty, you've declared your wish to die honorably by harakiri.
His wife lay gasping for breath, on the very verge of death, while his beloved son burned with fever, in dire need of a doctor.
I have a payment to meet and if I don't, consequences will be dire.
In view of the dire emergency that exists.
I'm in dire need!
They came with dire visions about hell.
The situation is dire.
With all due respect to the court may I move for voir dire proceedings?
Is it true that in certain areas in Miranda there's still dire poverty?
But the Great Depression had taken its toll on Universal, as well as most of the other studios, and they were in dire straits.
Well, we're in dire financial stress.
And if things got dire, he could demonstrate what a good shot he is.
Strange screams of death, and prophesying with accents terrible of dire combustion and confused events new hatch'd to the woeful time, the obscure bird clamour'd the livelong night.
The latest creations are not worn by those in dire poverty. Believe me, monsieur.
Dire news, Sire.
To a pulp. Then I'll save the dire news till you've had you're drink.
At this hour of dire national emergency, you've rendered a valuable service to our armed forces and set a fitting example for other employees.
Mr Worfshefski, had you learned anything in your first class, and I refer to the elementary class, you might not be in such dire need of learning now.
Oh, he is in dire straights.
The latest creations are not worn by those in dire poverty.
Germany's in dire need of brave men.
All this could have most dire consequences.
Pranab, I'm in dire straits.
Well, I have a payment to meet and if I don't, consequences will be dire.
Dire event?
Do, with like timorous accent and dire yell as when by night and negligence the fire is spied in populous cities.
Santa Rosa, forgive my taking your alms, but I'm in dire need of money.
Well, it's been up there three months now, with no dire effects.

News and current affairs

Today's mega-cities, for example, already have to confront dangerous heat waves, rising sea levels, more extreme storms, dire congestion, and air and water pollution.
But the long-term prognosis - made especially dire by health-care reform's inability to make much of a dent in rising medical costs - is sufficiently bleak that there is increasing bipartisan momentum to do something.
Djindjic's murder shows that the situation is so dire that aid should no longer be strictly conditional on harsh reforms.
For all the dire warnings that the window for a two-state solution is rapidly closing (or has already closed), it is the solution itself that is the problem.
Flooding their economies with liquidity, maintaining export-friendly exchange rates, and spending to employ workers directly and boost the supply of safe savings vehicles have made the Great Recession in East Asia less dire than it has been elsewhere.
As a former ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), I can say from experience that such dire predictions are nothing new.
I doubt, however, that celebrities like Miss Bardot will ever recognize the absurdity of their misplaced priorities - to come to a country where millions live in despair and dire conditions, and show concern for only the wild dogs.
But the state itself is in dire financial straits; one of the cities' problems is the sharp curtailment of state funds to localities.
But they don't question long hours and dire working conditions.
Perhaps even in the depths of Mongolia, you would have heard the dire warnings emitted by journalists.
But lost among the hype is the unexciting fact that this report is actually no more dire than the IPCC's last report, issued in 2001.
In two important ways, this year's effort was actually less dire.
Their failure would have dire consequences for the entire region.
Given this, dire comparisons to, say, the decline of Rome are simply unwarranted.
Like many Europeans today, most Americans do not seem to understand - or care to understand - that the crumbling of the liberal world order would have dire consequences for all of them.
But a year ago, the figures were already dire: 60,000 dead, 700,000 international refugees, and two million internally displaced.
The dire lessons of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will shape future debate about America's international role in the twenty-first century.
After a period of calm that has now lasted a decade, dire economic warnings are back. Forecasts for the world economy are turning pessimistic, and economists in export-dependent Argentina are finding much to worry about.
Again and again, local and international economists have issued dire warnings about what would happen if it persisted in its heterodoxy.
But, in view of America's dire fiscal challenges, the Obama administration has just announced plans for a leaner military and greater reliance on regional allies and partners.
And if Italy were helped, the incoming ECB President, Mario Draghi, an Italian, would be criticized, no matter how dire Italy's need.
Hunger remains widespread, if not as dire as two years ago.
And, sadly, things have become worse in the past 30 years, as Afghanistan's particular brand of Islam, combined with its legacy of dire poverty and war, compounds an already misogynist pre-Islamic tradition.
The dire legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan weighs heavily on the Western democracies.
Under these circumstances - in addition to the dire human rights and humanitarian situation in North Korea - Park laid out her vision for a unified Korea.
Meanwhile, through arrests, threats, and bribery, authorities are forcing villagers to withdraw accounts of abuse and back out of their lawsuits, warning of the dire consequences of cooperating with Chen and the lawyers.
Fortunately, there is little reason to believe such dire predictions, or that the market gyrations that have been driving recent headlines represent anything more than short-term volatility.
But lost among the hype is the unexciting fact that this report is actually no more dire than the IPCC's last report, issued in 2001. In two important ways, this year's effort was actually less dire.

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