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Significats de direful en anglès

Causing fear or dread or terror.

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      The direful youths fought in the Steynham stables, overheard by the grooms.
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      He felt himself supremely helpless in the presence of the direful calamity.
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      At night the scene was far more direful than in the day.
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      They discovered uncharted islands and cheerfully fought savages or suffered direful shipwreck.
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      In such a case, how avert the chances of a direful conflict?
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      When he arrived in his native land he learned of two direful events.
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      She felt instinctively that the name was one of direful omen to herself.
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      To-day the contemplation of that commonplace garden gave him direful pain.
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      This, I am sure, will avert the bloody and direful conflict.
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      First, Jemmy Tweedle felt on his hinder head the direful bone.
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      It seemed as if poverty became ever more direful, and dissatisfaction more importunate.
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      The three men knew that she brought momentous, perchance direful, intelligence.
      The Albert Gate Mystery / Being Further Adventures of Reginald B...
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      That direful mishap was at the bottom of his temporary recluseness.
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      You who make dramas, you will never invent anything as direful as that.
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      To hang upon that which is dark, direful, and saddening tends to degeneracy.
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      The day had been too full, too full of direful things.
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