dree

UK /dɹiː/ US /dɹi/

adv 3verb 2noun 1adj 1

Definitions

verb

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.

To endure; to brook; also, to be able to do or continue.

noun

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

Of the doing of a task: with concentration; laboriously.

Chiefly of the falling of rain: without pause or stop; continuously, incessantly.

Slowly, tediously.

ADJ.

awful, fearful, thick

VERB + DREE

face, lying

DREE + NOUN

beasts, niver, poverty, season, thou'rt

ADV.

such

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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