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dree

Pronunciation: /dɹiː/

The English word “dree” has 6 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To bear or endure (something); to put up with, to suffer, to undergo.
  2. To endure; to brook; also, to be able to do or continue.

noun

  1. Grief; suffering; trouble.

adverb

  1. Of the doing of a task: with concentration; laboriously.
  2. Chiefly of the falling of rain: without pause or stop; continuously, incessantly.
  3. Slowly, tediously.

Etymology

Probably partly borrowed from Scots dree, and partly derived from its etymon Middle English dreen, dreghen, dreogen, drien, from Old English drēogan, from Proto-West Germanic *dreugan, from Proto-Germanic *dreuganą (“to act; to work, (specifically) to do military service”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- (“to hold fast”). Doublet of dreich, dright, and drighten. Cognates * Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌿𐌲𐌰𐌽…

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