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grees

verb

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Meaning
  1. to stir
  2. to incite, provoke, agitate, egg on, foment, excite, stir up, instigate, prod
  3. to drive, accelerate
  4. to abet
Examples

Va'n dooinney grees y phobble dy gholl magh.

The man was stirring the people to go out.

Part of speechverb

Usage noteCan also mean to provoke or accelerate in various contexts.

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grees in other languages

Source: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (Wiktextract) — Wave 3 (CC-BY-SA-4.0), adapted.