| dire | aimlessly drifting |
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| dire | a pronouncement encouraging or banning some activity |
| dire | showing the way by conducting or leading |
| dire | the property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive in one direction than in another |
| dire | without delay |
| dire | without deviation |
| dire | in a forthright manner |
| dire | without anyone or anything intervening |
| dire | trueness of course toward a goal |
| dire | the person who leads a musical group |
| dire | someone who controls resources and expenditures |
| dire | someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show |