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dree

verb
/dɹiː/UK/dɹi/US/ðreː/

Etymology

Probably partly: * derived from the verb (see etymology 1); and * borrowed from Scots dree, or derived from its etymon Middle English dri, drie, dregh, dreghe (“annoyance, trouble; grief; period of time”), possibly from Middle English dregh, dri, drie (“burdensome; depressing, dismal; large, tall; lasting, long; long-suffering, patient; tedious; of blows: hard, heavy; of the face: unchanging, unmoved; of a person: strong, valorous”), from Old English *drēog, *drēoȝ, dreoh (“earnest; fit; sober”), and then probably partly: ** shortened from Old English gedrēog (“calm, quiet; sober; fit, suitable”, adjective); and ** influenced by Old Norse drjúgr (“sufficient; excessive, very; great; strong”), from Proto-Germanic *dreugaz (see above). Doublet of dreich.

  1. derived from *dreugaz✻
  2. derived from drjúgr — “sufficient; excessive, very; great; strong”
  3. derived from gedrēog — “calm, quiet; sober; fit, suitable”
  4. derived from *drēog✻
  5. derived from dregh
  6. inherited from dri
  7. borrowed from dree

Definitions

  1. To bear or endure (something)

    To bear or endure (something); to put up with, to suffer, to undergo.

    • Peace to the souls of the graveless dead! / 'Twas an awful doom to dree; / But fearful and wondrous are thy works, / O God! in the boundless sea!
    • And redoubled pine for its dwellers I dree.

  2. To endure

    To endure; to brook; also, to be able to do or continue.

  3. Grief

    Grief; suffering; trouble.

    • Life is blood, shed and offered. / The eagle’s eye can face this dree. / To beasts of chase the lie is proffered: / Timor Mortis Conturbat Me.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Of the doing of a task

      Of the doing of a task: with concentration; laboriously.

    2. Chiefly of the falling of rain

      Chiefly of the falling of rain: without pause or stop; continuously, incessantly.

    3. Slowly, tediously.

    4. Alternative form of dreich.

      • To be sure, t' winter's been a dree season, and thou'rt, maybe, in the right on't to make a late start.
      • But he's lying i' such dree poverty,—and niver a friend to go near him,—niver a person to speak a kind word t' him.
      • So, after two hours' running downhill, we came out in the level valley at Glashütte. It was raining now, a thick dree rain.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA