dree
Plural: drees
Verb
Verb Forms: dreed, dreeing, drees
- To endure or suffer something, often pain or hardship.
- To bear or endure (something); to put up with, to suffer, to undergo.
- To endure; to brook; also, to be able to do or continue.
Noun
- Grief; suffering; trouble.
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
- Alternative form of dreich.
Examples
- He had to dree through an entire game of Words With Friends with nothing but consonants.
Origin / Etymology
Probably partly borrowed from Scots dree, and partly derived from its etymon Middle English dreen, dreghen, dreogen, drien, from Old English drēogan, from Proto-West Germanic *dreugan, from Proto-Germanic *dreuganą (“to act; to work, (specifically) to do military service”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- (“to hold fast”). Doublet of dreich, dright, and drighten.
Cognates
* Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌿𐌲𐌰𐌽 (driugan, “to do military service”)
* Icelandic drýgja (“to commit, connect, perpetrate, lengthen”)
* Scots dree, drie (“to bear, endure, suffer, thole”)
Synonyms
abear, abide, aby, accept, allow, bear, bide, brook, dree, endure, forbear, go along with, live with, pass, pocket, pouch, put up with, stand, stick, stomach, suffer, swallow, take, take sitting down, thole, tolerate, undergang, undergo
Scrabble Score: 5
dree: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddree: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
dree: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary