dere

See also derë

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English dere, from Old English dæru, daru (“injury, hurt, harm, damage, calamity; loss, deprivation”), from Proto-Germanic *darō (“damage, injury”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰō(w)- (“to sharpen”). Cognate with Middle Dutch dare, dere, Middle Low German dere, Old High German tara (“damage, injury”).

Noun

dere (plural deres)

1. (transitive, UK dialectal) Hurt; harm; injury.

   She did him dere.

Etymology 2

From Middle English deren, derien, from Old English derian (“to damage, injure, hurt, harm”), from Proto-Germanic *darjaną (“to injure, harm”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰō(w)- (“to sharpen”). Cognate with Scots dere, deir (“to harm, hurt, injure”), Saterland Frisian dera (“to injure, damage”), West Frisian deare, derre (“to harm, injure”), Dutch deren (“to injure, damage, scathe”), Middle High German tern (“to injure”). Related to dart.

Verb

dere (third-person singular simple present deres, present participle dering, simple past and past participle dered)

1. (transitive, UK dialectal) To hurt; harm; injure; wound.
   • c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales:

     And of Achilles with his queynte spere, / For he koude with it bothe heele and dere [...].

   • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XIII:

     Than herde he a voyce sey, ‘Sir Galahad, I se there envyrowne aboute the so many angels that my power may nat deare the!’

2. (transitive, UK dialectal) To annoy, trouble, grieve.

Derived terms

• dering

Anagrams

• deer, dree, rede, reed, Reed

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eːrə

Verb

dere

1. singular present subjunctive of deren

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Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA: /'deːɾə/
• Rhymes: -eːrə

Pronoun

dere (objective case dere)

1. (personal) you (2nd person plural subject pronoun)