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dree🔊

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

💬 Quotations
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!

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

(chiefly Northumbria, Scotland, archaic) Grief; suffering; trouble.

💬 Quotations
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.

(Northeast Midlands, Northern England) Of the doing of a task: with concentration; laboriously.

(Northeast Midlands, Northern England) Chiefly of the falling of rain: without pause or stop; continuously, incessantly.

(Lancashire, Scotland) Slowly, tediously.