Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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adv
Pronunciation spelling of there.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, not-comparable, pronunciation-spelling
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intj
Pronunciation spelling of there.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
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noun
Hurt; harm; injury.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, obsolete
Synonyms: injury, wound, scath, scathe, lesion, dere
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noun
Pronunciation spelling of there.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling, uncountable
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pron
Pronunciation spelling of there.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
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verb
To hurt; harm; injure; wound.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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Synonyms: damage, scathe, abuse, annoy, bewound, damnify, dere, do damage to, do for, do ill, do violence to, forwork, grieve, harm, harrow, hurt, injure, maul, mayhem, misdo, put someone in hospital, scaith, vulnerate, wet, wound, ache, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, anguish, excruciate, irritate, pang, pine, rack, throe, torment, torture, wring
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verb
To annoy, trouble, grieve.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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History
Nonstandard spelling of there, reflecting any of a variety of accents with th-stopping.
From Middle English dere, from Old English dæru, daru (“injury, hurt, harm, damage, calamity; loss, deprivation”), from Proto-West Germanic *daru, from Proto-Germanic *darō (“damage, injury”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhórh3-eh2, from *dherh3- (“to leap, spring”). Cognate with Middle Dutch dare, dere, Low German dere, Old High German tara, Avestan 𐬛𐬁𐬭𐬁 (dārā), Sanskrit धारा (dhā́rā).
From Middle English deren, from Old English derian (“to damage, injure, hurt, harm”), from Proto-West Germanic *darjan (“to injure, harm”), from Proto-Indo-European *dherh3- (“to leap, spring”). Cognate with 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.
