Drees vs Deres - What's the difference?
drees | deres |
(dree)
To suffer; bear; thole; endure; put up with; undergo.
* 1885 , Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , volume 8:
To endure; brook; be able to do or continue.
(now, chiefly, dialectal) Long; large; ample; great.
(now, chiefly, dialectal) Great; of serious moment.
(now, chiefly, dialectal) Tedious; wearisome; tiresome.
(dere)
To hurt; harm; injure; wound.
* c.1390 , Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales :
* :
To annoy, trouble, grieve.
As a verb drees
is (dree).As a pronoun deres is
your, thy (singular; one owner, formal, polite).drees
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(head)Anagrams
* * * * ----dree
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) dreen, dreghen, dreogen, from (etyl) . See also (l), (l).Verb
(d)- And redoubled pine for its dwellers I dree .
Derived terms
* (l) *Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (Scotland)Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 3
From (etyl) dreghe, dregh, from dregh, . See above.Anagrams
* * * * ----deres
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * * * ----dere
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 /