Dree

Quick meaning: Dree is a verb meaning (transitive) To bear or endure (something); to put up with, to suffer, to undergo.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To endure; to brook; also, to be able to do or continue.
2. Of the doing of a task: with concentration; laboriously.
3. Chiefly of the falling of rain: without pause or stop; continuously, incessantly.
4. (Lancashire, Scotland) Slowly, tediously.
5. Alternative form of dreich.
6. (chiefly Northumbria, Scotland, archaic) Grief; suffering; trouble.

Example Sentences

And redoubled pine for its dwellers I dree.

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.

Word Forms

• drees
• dreeing
• dreed
• dreer
• dreest

Synonyms for dree

Depending on context, synonyms include abear, abide, aby, accept, allow, bear.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include undergo, endure, suffer, take, bide, tolerate.

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