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dreap

dreap is the alternative form of dreep.

Meaning of dreep

Verb

dreep (third-person singular simple present dreeps, present participle dreeping, simple past and past participle dreeped)

  1. (Scotland) To lower oneself from a height and drop the remaining distance.
    • If ye could not do the next jump ye just dreeped down and ran along the ground and up the next one.2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 77

Forms of dreap

third-person singular presentdreaps
present participledreaping
past participledreaped
pastdreaped

Questions about dreap

What is dreap the alternative form of?
Dreap is the alternative form of dreep.

Words near dreap in the dictionary

  1. dreamwrapt
  2. dreamy
  3. dreamy Daniel
  4. dreamy Daniels
  5. Dreanna
  6. dreap
  7. dreaped
  8. dreaping
  9. dreaps
  10. drear
  11. dreare

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dreap (page history and authors); dreep (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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