Dire
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- Ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens.
- Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.
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Quotations
- Dire was the tossing, deep the groans. — John Milton, Paradise Lost, line 9858.
- Gorgons and hydras and chimeras dire. — John Milton, Paradise Lost, line 1464.
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