dree

Meanings

Plural: drees

Verb

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.

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 is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
dree is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
dree is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 5

dree is a valid Words With Friends word