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dree
UK /dɹiː/ US /dɹi/
adv 3verb 2noun 1adj 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
awful, fearful, thick
VERB + DREE
face, lying
DREE + NOUN
beasts, niver, poverty, season, thou'rt
ADV.
such
Definitions
verb
1
To bear or endure (something); to put up with, to suffer, to undergo.
Peace to the souls of the graveless dead! / 'Twas an awful doom to dree; / But fearful and wondrous are thy works, / O God! in the boundless sea!
And redoubled pine for its dwellers I dree.
2
To endure; to brook; also, to be able to do or continue.
noun
1
Grief; suffering; trouble.
Life is blood, shed and offered. / The eagle’s eye can face this dree. / To beasts of chase the lie is proffered: / Timor Mortis Conturbat Me.
adv
1
Of the doing of a task: with concentration; laboriously.
2
Chiefly of the falling of rain: without pause or stop; continuously, incessantly.
3
Slowly, tediously.
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Peace to the souls of the graveless dead! / 'Twas an awful doom to dree; / But fearful and wondrous are thy works, / O God! in the boundless sea!
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And redoubled pine for its dwellers I dree.
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Life is blood, shed and offered. / The eagle’s eye can face this dree. / To beasts of chase the lie is proffered: / Timor Mortis Conturbat Me.
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To be sure, t' winter's been a dree season, and thou'rt, maybe, in the right on't to make a late start.
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But he's lying i' such dree poverty,—and niver a friend to go near him,—niver a person to speak a kind word t' him.
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So, after two hours' running downhill, we came out in the level valley at Glashütte. It was raining now, a thick dree rain.
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