Dire is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DIRE in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• disastrous
• extremely serious or urgent
• (of a warning or threat) presaging disaster
• of a very poor quality
• disastrous, urgent, or terrible
• fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless
• causing fear or dread or terror

Words related to DIRE

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Words that contain DIRE

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How to use DIRE in a sentence

• Avery and the children were in dire disgrace, and Mrs.
• The murderous outbreak had other dire results for the negro, and caused many innocent men to be suspected and punished.
• For a longer period than was ever known in your land before, you have escaped the dire calamities of War within your borders.
• From the Assyrian version we know that the hero tells the maiden of his grief for his lost companion, and of his longing to escape the dire fate of Enkidu.
• It neither achieved those great things hoped by its supporters, nor yet brought about the dire disasters so freely threatened by its opponents.
• So dire a sadness sat on every look, Even Death repented he had given the stroke.
• We, in situations of dire necessity, eat our own fellows.
• It concerned a lawyer who was once pleading in a French criminal court in behalf of a man whose crime had been committed under the influence of dire want.
• With his last cartridge gone, what chance had he of life? He had been in many a dire strait in the past, but nothing to equal this.
• At this point a far more serious crisis put the pacific relations of the two negotiating countries in dire peril.
• In her hour of dire need, most likely of extreme danger, she had turned to me, a man of staid repute and old enough, no doubt, to be her father.
• The grizzly had advanced so rapidly that he was already almost upon the crouching boy, who stared at him as if in dire dismay, as well he might.
• The ghost of the ill-starred Ailsee had occasionally been seen by the country folk, but always with dire results.
• Cannot women take their pleasure with whom they please without such dire results? Ah! Such luxury, such pleasant surroundings! All must be abandoned.
• As the uncle is the only stay in dire necessity care must be taken not to offend.
• Not only this, but it also prevents the individual from undertaking the study of those arts and sciences of which society stands in dire need.
• It was also true that without his aid Nantaquas could not have rescued us from that dire peril.
• Dire was sentenced to be hung today for the murder of his father.
• The children attend the Mission school, and yesterday Topsy was sent home in dire disgrace for lying and cheating.
• Her remorse and her feeling of the dire necessity for confessing her sin had sustained her hitherto.
• Everybody knows how desperately an habitually irresolute man is capable of clinging to a policy or a conviction, to which he has once been driven by dire stress of circumstance.
• Will was startled, naturally, but the Indians were thrown into dire confusion.
• She had returned to her home to wait in dire anxiety until her husband should reach Washington.

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