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— English words —

• dire adj. Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
• dire adj. Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
• dire adj. Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal.
• dire adj. (Informal) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Catalan
  • dire v. (Northern Catalan, Alghero) Alternative form of dir.
  • diré v. First-person singular future indicative form of dir.
• Czech
  • díře n. Dative/locative singular of díra.
• Middle french - Occitan
  • dire v. To say (express using language).
• Northern kurdish
  • di␣...␣re By, via, with.
  • di␣...␣re Upon.
• Occitan
  • dire v. To mean; to signify.
• Old french
  • dire v. (Chiefly intransitive) to say.
  • dire v. (Transitive) to recount (a story).
• Old occitan - Walloon
  • dire v. To say.

— English words, defined in Dutch —

• dire bijv. Nijpend.
• dire bijv. Smartelijk.
• dire bijv. Vreselijk.

— English words, defined in French —

• dire adj. Urgent, pressant (besoin).
• dire adj. Désespéré (situation).
• dire adj. Sinistre, terrible (nouvelle).
• dire adj. Extrême, terrible.
• dire adj. Mauvais (qualité).

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• dire adj. Urgente.
• dire adj. Extremo.
• dire adj. Funesto, nefasto.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• dire adj. Sinistro.
• dire adj. Horrível, terrível.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• dire agg. Sinistro, terribile, molto grave.

— In French —

• dire v. Exprimer par la parole.
• dire v. Ordonner, conseiller.
• dire v. Énoncer par écrit.
• dire v. S’emploie souvent dans le sens de répondre à une objection.
• dire v. (Poétique) Célébrer, chanter, raconter.
• dire v. (Courant) Débiter, réciter.
• dire v. Juger ; croire ; penser.
• dire v. Dénoter, signifier, indiquer, marquer.
• dire v. (Sens figuré) S’emploie en parlant des actions, des gestes…
• dire v. (Familier) Dénoncer.
• dire v. Exprimer ce que l’on pense, ce que l’on ressent, ce que l’on voit.
• dire n.m. (Précédé d’un adjectif possessif) Ce qu’une personne dit…
• dire n.m. (Rare) Chose dite, prise de parole.

— In Spanish —

• diré v. Primera persona del singular (yo) del futuro de indicativo de decir.

48 English words from 14 English definitions

action Alghero Alternative awful bad boding Catalan Chiefly consequences Dative dir dismal dreadful express Expressing First First␣person First-person␣singular form future ill ill-boding indicative Informal intransitive language locative mean Northern person portentous pressing prevent quality recount Requiring say signify singular story terrible Transitive Upon urgent using via Warning with

25 English words from 28 foreign definitions

actions chanter Chose Courant dans del des dit dite grave Juger objection par parole persona prise que Rare sens signifier singular Sinistre situation terrible Urgent

61 foreign words from 28 foreign definitions

adjectif adjectif␣possessif besoin Célébrer ce␣que conseiller croire Débiter decir Dénoncer Dénoter Désespéré écrit emploie Énoncer Exprimer Extrême Extremo Familier figuré Funesto futuro gestes Horrível indicativo indiquer l’on marquer Mauvais molto nefasto Nijpend nouvelle Ordonner par␣écrit parlant pense penser personne Poétique possessif Précédé pressant Primera Primera␣persona prise␣de␣parole qualité raconter réciter répondre ressent Sens␣figuré Sinistro Smartelijk souvent terribile terrível une Urgente voit Vreselijk

215 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

direr direct direly direst directs direful dirempt directed directee directer directly director Dire␣Dawa dirempts direness diresome diretmid dire␣wolf direcshun direct␣cut directees directers directest directeth directing direction directive directors directory directour directrix direct␣sum direct␣tax direfully dirempted direption diresidue diretmids direcshuns directable direct␣case direct␣cost direct␣cuts directedly direct␣fire directions directives direct␣mail directness directoire Directoire +164 words

273 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

nadired codirect co-direct indirect redirect re-direct undirect codirects indirects indiretin misdirect nondirect outdirect redirects subdirect undirects VFR␣direct voir␣dires bidirected codirected co-directed codirector co-director indirected indirectly medireview misdirects outdirects overdirect redirected redirector semidirect undirected undirectly x-direction y-direction z-direction art␣director arthrodires codirecting codirection co-direction codirectors co-directors cryptodires ex-directory hyperdirect ill-directed indirect␣dye indirecting +223 words

8 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

adire avodire voir␣dire arthrodire cryptodire pleurodire eucryptodire paracryptodire

7 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

dir dir. Dir. ire IrE IRE Ire.

3 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

Eri. rid RID

9 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

Deri dier Dier drie Ider IDer ired Reid ride

119 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

adire aider aired Ardie bider birde bride Bride cider cried deair Demir Deori deric Deric derig deriv. Desir dicer Dieri diers diker dimer diner Dirae direr dirge dirke diver drein dried drier Drier dries -drine drite driue drive Durie Dwire Edric Efird eider Eider Eridu Fedir fired fried Fried gride g-ride G-ride G␣ride +66 words

47 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

DEI der Der Der. die dir dir. Dir. Dre DRE DRI D.R.I. EDI EDR eid Eid EID 'eid 'Eid eir EIR erd ERD Eri. ide Ide IDE -ide IDR IED -ied -ier ire IrE IRE Ire. RDE red Red RED -red rei rid RID rie Rie RIE

49 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

aire Aire -aire cire dare Dare DARE dere de␣re dice Dice dike Dike Dikê Dikē dime Dime dine Dine Diné dira dirk Dirk dirs dirt DIRT Dise dite dive dize Dore dure Eire Éire fire FIRE gire Gire hire Hire lire mire Mire N.Ire. sire tire vire wire Wire

10 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

die dir dir. Dir. Dre DRE ire IrE IRE Ire.

4 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

Dirae dirge dirke Dwire

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