dreve

• drove

From Middle English dreven (also droven), from Old English drēfan, *drōfian (“to trouble, vex, agitate, disturb the mind of”), from Proto-Germanic *drōbijaną (“to disturb, excite, make muddy”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrebʰ- (“to become thick or cloudy, curdle, ferment”). Cognate with Low German dröven, Dutch droeven (“to be sad, grieve”), German trüben (“to dull, dim, cloud, tarnish, trouble”), Swedish bedröva (“to grieve, sadden, distress”). Related to droff.

dreve (third-person singular simple present dreves, present participle dreving, simple past and past participle dreved)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To trouble; afflict; make anxious.

• Dever, Verde

• Rhymes: -eːvə

dreve

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of drijven

• veder, verde, vrede