Dictionary Entry
fray
fray is a 4-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Affray; broil; contest; combat. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 9 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Affray; broil; contest; combat.
- 2transitive verb
To frighten; to terrify; to alarm.
- 3transitive verb
To bear the expense of; to defray.
- 4transitive verb
To rub; to wear off, or wear into shreds, by rubbing; to fret, as cloth; as, a deer is said to fray her head.
- 5intransitive verb
To rub.
- 6intransitive verb
To wear out or into shreads, or to suffer injury by rubbing, as when the threads of the warp or of the woof wear off so that the cross threads are loose; to ravel; as, the cloth frays badly.
- 7noun
A fret or chafe, as in cloth; a place injured by rubbing.
- 8noun
a noisy fight
Synonyms
- 9verb
cause friction
"my sweater scratches"
- 10verb
wear away by rubbing
"The friction frayed the sleeve"
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