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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"Vell, you say coom dree o'clock," said a harsh voice behind them.
From Sube Cane by Edward Bellamy Partridge
Why, baint his arms dree goolden horses’ heads, and idden his lady the daughter of Master Richard Phelipson of Montislope, in Nether Wessex, known to us all?”
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893 by Various
His face quivered before these blows, but all he said was, “I must dree my dreed.”
From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
“Arise, and set the maiden free; Why should the world such sorrow dree By reason of Persephone?”
From Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline) Guerber
"Dinna dree the death ye'll never dee," said Margaret affectionately; "we shall see, if we be spared, what the morn will bring."
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various
Ay me! that thankes so much should faile of meed, For that I thee restor'd to life againe, Even from the doore of death and deadlie dreed.
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser
His face quivered before these blows, but all he said was, "I must dree my dreed."
From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
"He dreed his weird," said Mrs. McLane indifferently.
From Sleeping Fires: a Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
He dreed out his weird most thoroughly, and drank the cup presented to him to the last dregs.
From The First Violin A Novel by Jessie Fothergill
There is to be no pardon till I have dreed out the years appointed me in the gust and poverty of this dreadful place, among its hard, unfriendly men.
From Prisoners of Conscience by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
They whispered that she might well be dreeing this purgatory of returning to her dispossessed house for another's sake, not her own.
From An Isle in the Water by Katharine Tynan
Ever since this morning people have been dreeing me with Nana.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Émile Zola
"He's dreeing us with that handkerchief of his!" she cried.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Émile Zola
Preserve us a'! what shall we do, Thir dark, unhallow'd times; We 're surely dreeing penance now, For some most awfu' crimes.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
I sympathize with you for the dole which you are dreeing under the inflictions of your honest proser.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
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