Meaning & use
Dree
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To suffer or endure, especially a fate or hardship, in archaic or dialectal English.
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The old ballad tells of a knight who must dree his weird alone.
She dreed the long winter with quiet patience.
A note on using this word
The phrase "dree one's weird," meaning to endure one's fate, comes from Scots dialect and appears frequently in older ballads and literature.
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