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Dreamed vs Drempt - What's the difference?

dreamed | drempt |

As verbs the difference between dreamed and drempt

is that dreamed is (dream) while drempt is (dated).

dreamed

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (irregular form)

Verb

(head)
  • (dream)
  • * 1952 , (Ernest Hemingway), (The Old Man and the Sea) :
  • He was asleep in a short time and he dreamed of Africa when he was a boy and the long golden beaches and the white beaches, so white they hurt your eyes, and the high capes and the great brown mountains.

    drempt

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dated)
  • *
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1935 , year_published=1979 , edition= , editor= , author=(Jack Conroy), editor=Jack Salzman, David Ray , title=The Jack Conroy Reader , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Ayer Publishing , isbn=9780891021162 , page=59 , passage=I drempt' I was wound round tight as drum, hand and foot, with morning glory vines, and they was chokin' my neck same as they do the corn. I ' drempt I had cockleburrs stuck in my hair like a pincushion ... }}
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  • Usage notes

    This spelling is rare, and is possibly just eye-dialect for dreamt.