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What does direly mean?

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Adverb
  1. In a dire manner
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The voyage took them over an often rough sea that direly tested the endurance of Oscar Pelletier, even with his background as a sailor.
There's no arguing with the fact that Africa direly needs social and economic development and better food security.
Clytie predicted most direly interesting things of him if he did not come to the Feet before he died.
At the outset of the PHBM, the Upper Mandrare Basin area was direly lacking in a whole range of basic social services.
It's one of those situations wherein the benefits of programs designed to assist the farm community, who direly need it, are accruing elsewhere.
Many a good comrade's fate is known to me, so far, by that direly comprehensive word, missing.

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