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What does direly mean?

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Adverb
  1. In a dire manner
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It's one of those situations wherein the benefits of programs designed to assist the farm community, who direly need it, are accruing elsewhere.
There's no arguing with the fact that Africa direly needs social and economic development and better food security.
The show within the show presents expressions that are variously artisanal, feminist, and direly satirical.
At the outset of the PHBM, the Upper Mandrare Basin area was direly lacking in a whole range of basic social services.
While both may be necessary, the emphasis to date has been on the latter, when the former is more direly needed.
A nation may seize territory which it does not need, and exclude from it those who direly need its resources.

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