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The definition of dire is something so bad or scary that it causes distress or terror. An example of dire the need of a homeless person in winter. Dire is defined as something that is urgent. An example of dire is the warning to evacuate immediately. dirâ²er, dirâ²est. 1  arousing terror or causing extreme distress; dreadful; terrible.  calling for quick action; urgent: a dire need.
The name dire wolf (Latin: âCanis dirus â) is given to an actual species of Pleistocene megafauna that once existed on real-life Earth, like the mammoth and sabertooth cat. Dire wolves inhabited the Americas, from 1.8 million years ago to about 10,000 years ago.Note that the name of the real-life animal is spelled as two words, dire wolf, but that the name in the A Song of Ice and Fire novels is consistently spelled as one word, direwolf.The large Pleistocene mammals went extinct when the last ice age ended, roughly 10,000 years ago.irewolves are an unusually large and intelligent species of wolf. A grey direwolf on a white field is the sigil of House Stark.