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
Haf been dere all der wege more 'an dree months.
From Nevermore by Rolf Bolderwood
O meikle dolour did she dree, And aye the salt seas o'er she swam; 15 And far mair dolour did she dree On Estmere crag, when she them clamb.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
I minds when thaay wur made of dree sarts of wood, a main bit more crooked than this yer stick, and sart o’ carved a bit; doant ’ee see?
From Greene Ferne Farm by Richard Jefferies
And whatten penance will we dree for that, Edward, Edward?
From The Ties That Bind by Walter M. Miller
And with an other thought hir herte quaketh; Than slepeth hope, and after dreed awaketh; 810 Now hoot, now cold; but thus, bi-twixen tweye, She rist hir up, and went hir for to pleye.
From Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
Well, well; fortune is not so blind as people say; you dreed a good long weird; but you have got into a fine green paddock now to kick your heels in.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Moya Lavelle shut herself up in the cabin her husband Patrick had built, and dreed her weird alone.
From An Isle in the Water by Katharine Tynan
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
After which she dreed her guests with honorable sentiments.
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
Scathe, and shame, and a waefu' name, And a weary time and strange, Have they that seeing a weird for dreeing Can die, and cannot change.
From Poems and Ballads (Third Series) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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
"He's dreeing us with that handkerchief of his!" she cried.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Émile Zola
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
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