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Definition of fret

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Fret (v. t.) To rub; to wear away by friction; to chafe; to gall; hence, to eat away; to gnaw; as, to fret cloth; to fret a piece of gold or other metal; a worm frets the plants of a ship..

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Feeze :: Feeze (n.) Fretful excitement. [Obs.] See Feaze.

Harass :: Harass (v. t.) To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out..

Cankered :: Cankered (a.) Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured..

Feaze :: Feaze (n.) A state of anxious or fretful excitement; worry; vexation.

Testiness :: Testiness (n.) The quality or state of being testy; fretfulness; petulance.

Worry :: Worry (v. t.) To harass or beset with importunity, or with care an anxiety; to vex; to annoy; to torment; to tease; to fret; to trouble; to plague..

Splenetic :: Splenetic (a.) Affected with spleen; malicious; spiteful; peevish; fretful.

Fret :: Fret (n.) Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation; as, he keeps his mind in a continual fret..

Trouble :: Trouble (v. t.) To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex.

Moody :: Moody (superl.) Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy..

Chafe :: Chafe (v. t.) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.

Whipsaw :: Whipsaw (n.) A saw for dividing timber lengthwise, usually set in a frame, and worked by two persons; also, a fret saw..

Transfretation :: Transfretation (n.) The act of passing over a strait or narrow sea.

Chafe :: Chafe (v. t.) To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable..

Techy :: Techy (a.) Peevish; fretful; irritable.

Fret :: Fret (n.) The reticulated headdress or net, made of gold or silver wire, in which ladies in the Middle Ages confined their hair..

Grate :: Grate (v. t.) To fret; to irritate; to offend.

Keckle :: Keckle (v. t.) To wind old rope around, as a cable, to preserve its surface from being fretted, or to wind iron chains around, to defend from the friction of a rocky bottom, or from the ice..

Crossness :: Crossness (n.) The quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor.

Fret :: Fret (n.) Ornamental work in relief, as carving or embossing. See Fretwork..