dire consequences
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdireandconsequence
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dire
adjective
uk/daɪər/us/daɪr/
very serious ...
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consequence
noun[C]
uk/ˈkɒn.sɪ.kwəns/us/ˈkɑːn.sə.kwəns/
a result of a particular action or situation, often one that is bad or ...
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(Definition ofdireandconsequencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The police threatened me withdireconsequencehe claimed.
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Failing to recognize the significance of cross-cultural differences can have dire consequences for children's social wellbeing and linguistic development.
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Witches, by definition, erased the boundary between words and deeds: their "spells" were words made fact, incantations that had dire consequences in the real world.
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The number of keepers rose, with dire consequences for anything with a hooked beak.
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Most of us are not tempted to change the world so that a lack of chastity has the often dire consequences that it once had.
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This resulted in dire consequences for him.
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The play highlights both the dire consequences of a lack of collective consciousness and the way the changes in management techniques have caused the world of work to disintegrate.
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Had boneprice settlements out of court been permitted at an early stage, official intervention and its dire consequences could perhaps have been avoided.
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This had dire consequences for social harmony.
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To regard ourselves as immune from all the possibilities of a return of the full disease is to harbour the delusion that may have the most dire consequences.
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It is this relationship between the literal and the figurative, and the dire consequences of their confusion, which is the most striking repeated element of these tales.
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Experience has entirely falsified all the dire consequences that were prophesied as to what would happen.
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They were threatened with dire consequences if they did not heed that advice.
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I am glad to say that the predictions of dire consequences have not been fulfilled.
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That continued and increased collaboration is essential if we are to succeed in our campaign against the misuse of drugs and their dire consequences.
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A directive has gone out threatening dire consequences to anyone who does.
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Inevitably, that will have dire consequences for service provision and development.
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I hope there will be no dire consequences from it.
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