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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"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
The protector of the fairy ring was proportionally recompensed— "He wha gaes by the fairy ring Nae dule or pains sall dree, And he wha cleans the fairy ring An easy death sall dee."
From Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride by Buchan, Patrick
"O God forbid," said Livingston, "That e'er I dree the shame; My lady slain in plain fields, And I coward knight at hame!"
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
The first Germans we had seen had told us with a sneer: "Parisse, Parisse, within dree tays we are in Parisse!"
From Six Women and the Invasion by Yerta, Gabrielle
Alas, my poor John! are you really doomed to dree the weird assigned your forebears.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various
And like brute beasts doo lie in loathsome den 531 Of ghostly darkenes and of gastlie dreed: For whom I mourne, and for my selfe complaine, And for my sisters eake whom they disdaine.
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund
Indeed, this my care-taking and my endeavour profited me naught, for what weird Allah decreed for my son, he hath dreed and whatso He decreed to me I have endured.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 11 [Supplement] by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
The doom thou dreed on May Margret The same doom shalt thou dree.
From English Fairy Tales by Rackham, Arthur
And withal she dreed her weird with a lofty courage, faced it full front with a high defiance, which must bespeak for ever the admiration at least of every generous spirit.
From England under the Tudors by Innes, Arthur D. (Arthur Donald)
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 Chaucer, Geoffrey
"It's my gudemither, my lord," said Margaret; "but she canna see onybody e'enow—Ohon! we're dreeing a sair weird—we hae had a heavy dispensation!"
From The Antiquary — Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir
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 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)
"Blitherin' their drool" is about the same as "dreeing their weird."
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
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 Tynan, Katharine
"He's dreeing us with that handkerchief of his!" she cried.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile
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