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dire distress

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meanings of direand distress


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dire
adjective
uk /daɪər/ us /daɪr/
very serious ...
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distress
noun[U]
uk /dɪˈstres/ us /dɪˈstres/
a feeling of extreme worry, sadness, ...
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Examples of dire distress


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Those women were in diredistress and came from four small districts.
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The consequence is real diredistress for the honest people living in these institutions.
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A few years ago, a social survey of redundant steel workers revealed the diredistress felt by many of those people.
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It is an altogether different story from that of the touring theatre, which is in diredistress.
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They did so because this is a duty that we all owe to men, women and children who are in diredistress.
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Up to now they have been forbidden from sending, of their own free will, something to assist those people in their diredistress.
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We must remember that they found their countries in diredistress and that they organised those countries.
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It meant negative equity so families could not afford to move house and were in diredistress because of their finances.
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On the other hand, the workers are paying their money into these other channels with readiness in the midst of unemployment and diredistress.
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Political capital may be made out of some of the speeches, but they do not help the country in its diredistress.
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It has ended in diredistress and failure.
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Some kind of network should be put in place to offer a reasonable degree of information to those who are in diredistress.
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That does not matter one iota to people who are in diredistress.
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The local authority should return to the field for which it was originally intended, namely, helping those in diredistress.
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They are in diredistress in regard to clothing and footwear, which they have no chance of replenishing.
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On the figures quoted that change would supply about £115,000 a year, and that amount would go some way towards meeting cases of diredistress.
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Moreover, millions of our people are in diredistress.
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Miners and their families are to-day going through more diredistress than there has ever been in the last 50 years.
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Behind that number, there are perhaps 3,000,000 or 4,000,000 more people who are suffering dire distress and agony as a consequence of the conditions under which they are living.
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It must not be cut down, for instance, in helping old people or people in diredistress, but big projects—such as a motorway—must be cut down.
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