dree

[ dree ]

adjective
  1. tedious; dreary.

verb (used with object),dreed, dree·ing.
  1. to suffer; endure.

Origin of dree

1
before 1000; Middle English; Old English drēogan to endure; cognate with Gothic driugan to serve (in arms)

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British Dictionary definitions for dree

dree

/ (driː) Scot literary /


verbdrees, dreeing or dreed
  1. (tr) to endure

  2. dree one's weird to endure one's fate

adjective
  1. another word for dreich

Origin of dree

1
Old English drēogan; related to Old Norse drӯgja to perpetrate

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