dere

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US /dɪɹ/ UK /dɪə/ See IPA manual

Homophones

dear /dɪɹ/ deer /dɪɹ/

Meanings

1

verb
to harm or injure (archaic/dialectal); also dialectal for dear

No foe could dere him while the talisman remained.

Verb forms

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Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 verb · to harm or injure... harm injure hurt damage afflict

Opposites

heal help spare

Etymology

From Old English derian ('to harm, injure, hurt'), from Proto-Germanic *darjaną ('to harm'). Now archaic and dialectal. The adjective sense 'dear' is an unrelated dialectal variant of dear.

derian Old English *darjaną Proto-Germanic

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