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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To suffer; bear; endure: as, to dree penance.
  • To endure; be able to do or continue.
  • Long; large; ample; great.
  • Great; of serious moment.
  • Tedious; wearisome; tiresome.
  • noun Length; extension; the longest part.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb obsolete To be able to do or endure.
  • adjective Prov. Eng. Wearisome; tedious.
  • transitive verb Scot. To endure; to suffer.

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  • verb transitive To suffer; bear; thole; endure; put up with; undergo.
  • verb intransitive To endure; brook; be able to do or continue.
  • noun Length; extension; the longest part.
  • adjective Long; large; ample; great.
  • adjective Great; of serious moment.
  • adjective Tedious; wearisome; tiresome.

Etymologies

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From Middle English dreen, dreghen, dreogen, from Old English drēogan ("to do, work, perform, fulfill, take part in, conduct, lead a (certain) life, pass life, fight, wander, commit, perpetrate, do battle, wage war, experience, bear, suffer, endure, sustain, tolerate, act, labor, enjoy, be employed, be busy"), from Proto-Germanic *dreuganan (“to work, act, do military service”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhereugh- (“to hold fast”), from Proto-Indo-European *dher- (“to hold, hold fast, support”). Cognate with Scots dree, drie ("to endure, thole, suffer, bear"), Gothic  (driugan, "to do military service"), Icelandic drýgja ("to commit, connect, perpetrate, lengthen"). See also dright, drighten.

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From Middle English dreghe, dregh, from dregh, dreȝ ("long, extended, great"). See above.

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From Middle English dreȝ, dregh, dryȝ ("long, extended, great"), from Old English *drēog ("fit, sober, earnest") and/or Old Norse drjúgr ("extensive, sufficient"); both from Proto-Germanic *dreugaz (“extensive, firm”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhereugh- (“to hold fast”), from Proto-Indo-European *dher- (“to hold, hold fast, support”). Cognate with Scots dreich ("extensive, lasting, long-lasting, tedious, tiresome, slow"), West Frisian drege ("extensive, long-lasting"), Danish drøj ("tough, solid, heavy"), Swedish dryg ("lasting, liberal, hard, large, ample"), Icelandic drjúgur ("long, substantial, ample, heavy").

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synonyms (4)

Words with the same meaning

  1. endure
  2. suffer
  3. tedious
  4. wearisome

same context (11)

Words that are found in similar contexts

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forms (4)

Forms

  1. dreed
  2. dreeing
  3. drees
  4. dree one’s weird

cross-references (1)

Cross-references

  1. to dree one's

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  • sionnach commented on the word dree

    —adj.

    tedious; dreary.

    —v.t.

    to suffer; endure.

    See dree one's weird.

    October 25, 2008

  • yarb commented on the word dree

    During this voyage ye heavens has been so dree overcast that

    no observation by stars, nor yet by sun can be got.

    - Peter Reading, Ukulele Music, 1985

    June 19, 2009