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dreve
vb. (context transitive obsolete English) To trouble; afflict; make anxious.
Usage examples of "dreve".
It delegated part of its intellectual resources to drawing up a list of treats and blandishments with which to mollify its own people when they returned, and planned for a two-week return to Dreve, packed with festivities and celebrations, to say sorry when it was free of the obligation to follow this accursed machine and was able to draw up its own course schedule again.
The star of the Dreve system was a bright spot back beyond that, stationary in the skein.