Sekirov Dictionary

dree

/dɹiː/

adverb 3
verb 2
noun 1
forms 7

adverb3

(Northern-England) Of the doing of a task: with concentration; laboriously.
(Scotland) Slowly, tediously.
(Northern-England) Chiefly of the falling of rain: without pause or stop; continuously, incessantly.

verb2

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(Scotland, Northern-England) To bear or endure (something); to put up with, to suffer, to undergo.
- 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! — 1826
(Scotland, Northern-England) To endure; to brook; also, to be able to do or continue.

noun1

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(Scotland, no longer used) Grief; suffering; trouble.
- 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. — 1958

forms

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

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