English Explanatory Dictionary

dree

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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.
adv
  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.
adj
  1. Alternative form of dreich.

Pronunciation

/dɹiː/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-dree.wav /dɹi/ /ðreː/ /driː/ /dri/

Word forms

dree drees dreeing dreed more dree most dree dreer dreest

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 (driugan, “to do military service”) * Icelandic drýgja (“to commit, connect, perpetrate, lengthen”) * Scots dree, drie (“to bear, endure, suffer, thole”)

Synonyms

abear abide aby accept allow bear bide brook dree endure forbear go along with live with pass pocket pouch put up with stand stick stomach suffer swallow take take sitting down thole tolerate undergang undergo

Derived words

adree dree one's weird endree dreely
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