Word Meanings - DRECCHE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To vex; to torment; to trouble. As man that in his dream is drecched sore. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to DRECCHE)

• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• TORMENTFUL
  Full of torment; causing, or accompainied by, torment; excruciating. Tillotson.
• DREAMINESS
  The state of being dreamy.
• TORMENTOR
  An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels. Hebert. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures. Jer. Taylor. Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with
• TORMENTIL
  A rosaceous herb , the root of which is used as a powerful astringent, and for alleviating gripes, or tormina, in diarrhea. (more info) tormentilla, Sp. tormentila; all fr. L. tormentum pain. So called
• DREAMER
  1. One who dreams. 2. A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.
• TROUBLESOME
  Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome. This troublesome world. Book of Common Prayer. These troublesome disguises that we wear. Milton. My mother will never be troublesome to me. Pope. Syn. -- Uneasy; vexatious; perplexing;
• TORMENT
  1. To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture. " Art thou come hither to torment us before our time " Matt. viii. 29. 2. To pain; to distress; to afflict. Lord, my servant lieth at
• DRECCHE
  1. To vex; to torment; to trouble. As man that in his dream is drecched sore. Chaucer.
• DREAM
  Dan. & Sw. dröm; cf. G. trügen to deceive, Skr. druh to harm, hurt, try to hurt. AS. dreám joy, gladness, and OS. dr joy are, perh., different words; cf. Gr. 1. The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the
• TORMENTISE
  Torture; torment. Chaucer.
• TORMENTER
  1. One who, or that which, torments; a tormentor. 2. An executioner. Chaucer.
• TROUBLE
  A fault or interruption in a stratum. To get into trouble, to get into difficulty or danger. -- To take the trouble, to be at the pains; to exert one's self; to give one's self inconvenience. She never took the trouble to close them. Bryant. Syn.
• DREAMILY
  As if in a dream; softly; slowly; languidly. Longfellow.
• DREAMLESS
  Free from, or without, dreams. Camden. -- Dream"less*ly, adv.
• TORMENTRY
  Anything producing torment, annoyance, or pain. Chaucer.
• DREAMY
  Abounding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary. "The dreamy dells." Tennyson.
• DREAMLAND
  An unreal, delightful country such as in sometimes pictured in dreams; region of fancies; fairyland. builds a bridge from dreamland for his lay. Lowell.
• DREAMINGLY
  In a dreamy manner.
• DREAMFUL
  Full of dreams. " Dreamful ease." Tennyson. -- Dream"ful*ly, adv.
• UNDREAMED; UNDREAMT
  Not dreamed, or dreamed of; not thof. Unpathed waters, undreamed shores. Shak.
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• DAYDREAMER
  One given to draydreams.
• DAYDREAM
  A vain fancy speculation; a reverie; a castle in the air; unfounded hope. Mrs. Lambert's little daydream was over. Thackeray.
• JOHNADREAMS
  A dreamy, idle fellow. Shak.
• ADREAMED
  Visited by a dream; -- used in the phrase, To be adreamed, to dream.