dere

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

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

   No foe could dere him while the talisman remained.

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.

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