Crossword-Solution: DIRE 4 letters, 357 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

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Word Word Type Definition
Dire superl. Ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens.
Dire superl. Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible;
terrible; lamentable.

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Word Anagrams
DIRE anagram DIER, DREI, IRED, REDI, REID, RIDE

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"Money for Nothing" ___ Straits 1 answer
"Sultans of Swing" ___ Straits 1 answer
"Sultans of Swing" band ___ Straits 1 answer
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"___ Wolf" Grateful Dead 1 answer
Beyond serious 1 answer
Boding disaster 1 answer
C'est-a- ___ (that is to say): Fr. 1 answer
Calamitous, like a threat 1 answer
Castastrophic 1 answer
Causing great fear 1 answer
Critical, as circumstances 1 answer
Dangerously serious 1 answer
Descriptive of some undesirable consequences 1 answer
Desperate or calamitous 1 answer
Desperate, as a warning 1 answer
Desperate, as circumstances 1 answer
Desperate, as need 1 answer
Desperate, as straits 1 answer
Desperately urgent 1 answer
Dr. ___, producer of 50 Cent's "In Da Club" 1 answer
Dreadful, as circumstances 1 answer
Dreadful, as consequences 1 answer
Emergency-related 1 answer
Extremely urgent 1 answer
Extremely worrisome 1 answer
Fearful, as "straits" 1 answer
Foreboding disaster 1 answer
Foreboding trouble 1 answer
Foreboding, as a forecast 1 answer
Fraught with danger, as circumstances 1 answer
Fraught with danger, as some circumstances 1 answer
Fraught with extreme danger 1 answer
Grim, grave, or grievous 1 answer
Hardly looking good 1 answer
Highly urgent 1 answer
Highly worrisome 1 answer
Horribly urgent 1 answer
Ill-boding 1 answer
In __ straits 1 answer
In __ straits (desperate) 1 answer
In __ straits (needing help) 1 answer
In ___ need (desperate) 1 answer
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Grim or extremely serious in nature 1 answer
Like a bad situation 1 answer
Like a bleak situation 1 answer
Like desperate circumstances 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAAE
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Sentences with DIRE (5)

Seest thou yon dreary Plain, forlorn and wilde, The seat of desolation, voyd of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves, There rest, if any rest can harbour there, And reassembling our afflicted Powers, Consult how we may henceforth most offend Our Enemy, our own loss how repair, How overcome this dire Calamity, What reinforcement we may gain from Hope, If not what resolution from despare.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
But other grievous things he prophesied, Woes, lamentations, mourning, portents dire; To wit I should defile my mother’s bed And raise up seed too loathsome to behold, And slay the father from whose loins I sprang.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
The experiences of Stoll, and particularly his message in speaking engagements, have all pointed out the dire need for communication between parties on a network of networks.
Zen and the Art of the Internet Brendan P. Kehoe 1992
The comment "Register 7 is sacred to the interrupt handler" appearing in a program would be interpreted by a hacker to mean that if any *other* part of the program changes the contents of register 7, dire consequences are likely to ensue.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Conceding that he had adopted a dire tone in order to arouse people about the issue, BESSER closed on a sanguine note by saying that he would not be in this business if he did not think that things could be accomplished.
LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993

Quotes with DIRE (3)

No. Don't give up hope just yet. It's the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.
Pittacus Lore I Am Number Four
CHORONZON: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler. MORPHEUS: I am a hunter, horse-mounted, wolf-stabbing. CHORONZON: I am a horsefly, horse-stinging, hunter-throwing. MORPHEUS: I am a spider, fly-consuming, eight legged. CHORONZON: I am a snake, spider-devouring, posion-toothed. MORPHEUS: I am an ox, snake-crushing, heavy-footed. CHORONZON: I am an anthrax, butcher bacterium, warm-life destroying. MORPHEUS: I am a world, space-floating, life-nurturing. CHORONZON: I a…
Neil Gaiman Preludes & Nocturnes
Sometimes my mind goes dark, and every single part of my life goes dark with it. Any happiness I thought I knew gets replaced by a sadness so big it must be for the whole world. I convince myself that I have nothing to offer, and that nobody has anything to offer me, either. I commit to hopelessness. In these dark moments I remind myself, ( because I’d be too lost without the reminder) that what I'm feeling isn't the full truth of the world, not by miles, and that though I ca…
Scott Stabile
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