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direful

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Definitions

  1. causing fear or dread or terror

Word origin

From dire + -ful.

Used in a sentence

  • I haue beene wooed, as I intreat thee now, / Euen by the ſterne, and direfull God of warre, / VVhoſe ſinowie necke in battel nere did bow, / VVho conquers where he comes in euery iarre; […]
  • read what destiny / Or other dyrefull hap from heaven or hell / Hath wrought this wicked deed […].
  • "As whence the sun gins his reflection, shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break."

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