direful

causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful stor

जहाँ भी हमलावर दल दिखाई दिये यह विरोध करनेवाले मनुष्य पर दिल दहलाने वाले प्रतिशोध से टूट पड़ा|

wherever the invading army appeared, it wreaked direful vengeance upon the protestants.