dree
Americanadjective
verb (used with object)
verb
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(tr) to endure
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to endure one's fate
adjective
Etymology
Origin of dree
before 1000; Middle English; Old English drēogan to endure; cognate with Gothic driugan to serve (in arms)
Example Sentences
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O meikle dolour sall ye dree, And aye the salt seas o'er ye'se swim; And far mair dolour sall ye dree On Estmere crags, when ye them climb.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
Let evil-doers dree the shame o' their deeds.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Leighton, Alexander
"And aye, at every seven years' end,85 Ye'l tak him to the linn; For that's the penance he maun dree, To scug his deadly sin."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
What new unkindly kind of human pain Had Love not only doled for me to dree But eke on me was wholly execute?
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
"Und dey agreet dat dey might sell you de farm, when dem dree lifes wast up?"
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore
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