Dere vs Dire - What's the difference?
dere | dire |
To hurt; harm; injure; wound.
* c.1390 , Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales :
* :
To annoy, trouble, grieve.
Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
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, title= Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.
(label) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.
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As a noun dere
is door.As an adjective dere
is bitter.As a verb dire is
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) dere, from (etyl) .Etymology 2
From (etyl) deren, derien, from (etyl) .Verb
(der)- And of Achilles with his queynte spere, / For he koude with it bothe heele and dere .
- Thenne herd he a voyse say / Galahad I see there enuyronne aboute the so many angels that my power may not dere the /
Derived terms
*Anagrams
* ----dire
English
Adjective
(en-adj)It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains.
Norwich 4-2 Newcastle, passage=A second Norwich goal in four minutes arrived after some dire Newcastle defending. Gosling gave the ball away with a sloppy back-pass, allowing Crofts to curl in a cross that the unmarked Morison powered in with a firm, 12-yard header.}}
