English

Pronunciation

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

Noun

dere ‎(plural deres)

1. (Britain 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.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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.

Derived terms

• dering

Etymology 3

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

Pronunciation

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

Alternative forms

• der

Adverb

dere ‎(not comparable)

1. Nonstandard spelling of there.

Interjection

dere

1. Nonstandard spelling of there.

Noun

dere ‎(uncountable)

1. Nonstandard spelling of there.

Pronoun

dere

1. Nonstandard spelling of there.

Anagrams

• deer, dree, rede, reed, Reed

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eːrə

Verb

dere

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of deren

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeːɾə/
• Rhymes: -eːrə

Pronoun

dere ‎(objective case dere)

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

Welsh

Alternative forms

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

Pronunciation

• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈdeːrɛ/

Verb

dere

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

Mutation