Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to dree
Participle: dreed
Gerund: dreeing
Indicative
Present
| I | dree |
| you | dree |
| he;she;it | drees |
| we | dree |
| you | dree |
| they | dree |
Perfect
| I | have dreed |
| you | have dreed |
| he;she;it | has dreed |
| we | have dreed |
| you | have dreed |
| they | have dreed |
Past
| I | dreed |
| you | dreed |
| he;she;it | dreed |
| we | dreed |
| you | dreed |
| they | dreed |
Pluperfect
| I | had dreed |
| you | had dreed |
| he;she;it | had dreed |
| we | had dreed |
| you | had dreed |
| they | had dreed |
Future
| I | will dree |
| you | will dree |
| he;she;it | will dree |
| we | will dree |
| you | will dree |
| they | will dree |
Future Perfect
| I | will have dreed |
| you | will have dreed |
| he;she;it | will have dreed |
| we | will have dreed |
| you | will have dreed |
| they | will have dreed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | dree |
| you | dree |
| he;she;it | dree |
| we | dree |
| you | dree |
| they | dree |
Perfect
| I | have dreed |
| you | have dreed |
| he;she;it | have dreed |
| we | have dreed |
| you | have dreed |
| they | have dreed |
Imperfect
| I | dreed |
| you | dreed |
| he;she;it | dreed |
| we | dreed |
| you | dreed |
| they | dreed |
Pluperfect
| I | had dreed |
| you | had dreed |
| he;she;it | had dreed |
| we | had dreed |
| you | had dreed |
| they | had dreed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would dree |
| you | would dree |
| he;she;it | would dree |
| we | would dree |
| you | would dree |
| they | would dree |
Perfect
| I | would have dreed |
| you | would have dreed |
| he;she;it | would have dreed |
| we | would have dreed |
| you | would have dreed |
| they | would have dreed |
Imperative
| you | dree |
| we | Let's dree |
| you | dree |
Verbs conjugated like 'dree'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'dree'
adree,
dreep,
dreve,
drie,
free,
gree,
ree,
tree,
agree,
arere,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- suffer
- tolerate
- to allow something unpleasant to exist or occur
- abear, abide, aby, accept, allow, bear, bide, brook, endure, forbear, go along with, live with, pass, pocket, pouch, put up with, stand, stick, stomach, suffer, swallow, take sitting down, tolerate, thole, undergang, undergo
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 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.
2. Cognates
3. * Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌿𐌲𐌰𐌽 (driugan, “to do military service”)
4. * Icelandic drýgja (“to commit, connect, perpetrate, lengthen”)
5. * Scots dree, drie (“to bear, endure, suffer, thole”) See: Scots '
dree', Proto-Germanic '
*dreuganą', Icelandic '
drýgja', Scots '
dree'.
Sample Sentences
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Peace to the souls of the graveless dead! / 'Twas an awful doom to dree; / But fearful and wondrous are thy works, / O God! in the boundless sea! [1826, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, The Literary Gazette, 16th September: The Frozen Ship:]
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And redoubled pine for its dwellers I dree. [1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume VIII, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:]