Dree

/dɹiː/ · verb

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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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Word Forms

• drees
• dreeing
• dreed
• more dree
• most dree
• dreer
• dreest

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