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dreul

dreul is the obsolete form of drool.

Meaning of drool

Verb

drool (third-person singular simple present drools, present participle drooling, simple past and past participle drooled)

  1. (ambitransitive) To secrete saliva, especially in anticipation of food.
    Synonyms:
    slaver, slobber, dribble
  2. (ambitransitive) To secrete any substance in a similar way.
    • The alien beast drooled slime.
  3. (figuratively, informal, intransitive) To react to something with uncontrollable desire.
    • That boy is so attractive I drool whenever I see him!
  4. To talk nonsense; drivel.

See all 6 meanings of drool

Forms of dreul

third-person singular presentdreuls
present participledreuling
past participledreuled
pastdreuled

Questions about dreul

What is dreul the obsolete form of?
Dreul is the obsolete form of drool.

Words near dreul in the dictionary

  1. dretches
  2. dretching
  3. dretful
  4. Dretskean
  5. Dretskian
  6. dreul
  7. dreuled
  8. dreuling
  9. dreuls
  10. Dreux
  11. dreve

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dreul (page history and authors); drool (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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