dere

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”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪə/
• Homophones: dear, deer

dere (plural deres)

1. (Britain dialectal) Hurt; harm; injury.

   She did him dere.

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.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪə/
• Homophones: dear, deer

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

1. (transitive, Britain 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, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xij, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIII:

     Thenne herd he a voyse say / Galahad I see there enuyronne aboute the so many angels that my power may not dere the /

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

• dering

Nonstandard spelling of there, reflecting any of a variety of accents with th-stopping.

• der

• (AAVE, NYC) IPA^(key): /dɛː(ɹ)/
• (Ulster English) IPA^(key): /d̪ɛː(ɹ)/
• (Midlands) IPA^(key): /d̪ɛə(ɹ)/
• (rural areas of Scotland, rare) IPA^(key): /d̪iəɹ/
• Homophone: dare (some accents)

dere (not comparable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

dere

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

dere (uncountable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

dere

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

• Reed, deer, dree, rede, reed

• Rhymes: -eːrə

dere

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of deren

From Old Norse þér, ér, from a variant of Proto-Germanic *jūz, from Proto-Indo-European *yū́.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeːɾə/
• Rhymes: -eːrə

dere (objective case dere)

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

From Persian دره‎ (darre).

dere

1. valley

• dere in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

• tyrd (North Wales)
• tyred (North Wales, literary)

• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛrɛ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈdeːrɛ/, /ˈdɛrɛ/

dere

1. (South Wales) second-person singular imperative of dod

From Persian دره‎ (darre).

dere ?

1. valley