dere
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Old English derian, from West Proto-Germanic *darjanan. Cognate with Dutch deren.
[edit] Verb
dere (third-person singular simple present deres, present participle dering, simple past and past participle dered)
- (obsolete, transitive) To hurt, harm, injure.
- 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!’
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales:
- (obsolete) To annoy, trouble, grieve.
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[edit] Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eːrə
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