Dictionary Entry
fret
fret is a 4-letter English word with 37 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: See 1st Frith. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 7 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 7 · Words With Friends 7 · 37 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
See 1st Frith.
- 2transitive verb
To devour.
- 3transitive verb
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.
- 4transitive verb
To impair; to wear away; to diminish.
- 5transitive verb
To make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple; as, to fret the surface of water.
- 6transitive verb
To tease; to irritate; to vex.
- 7intransitive verb
To be worn away; to chafe; to fray; as, a wristband frets on the edges.
- 8intransitive verb
To eat in; to make way by corrosion.
- 9intransitive verb
To be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle; as, rancor frets in the malignant breast.
- 10intransitive verb
To be vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions.
- 11noun
The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- 12noun
Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation; as, he keeps his mind in a continual fret.
- 13noun
Herpes; tetter.
- 14noun
The worn sides of river banks, where ores, or stones containing them, accumulate by being washed down from the hills, and thus indicate to the miners the locality of the veins.
- 15transitive verb
To ornament with raised work; to variegate; to diversify.
- 16noun
Ornamental work in relief, as carving or embossing. See Fretwork.
- 17noun
An ornament consisting of smmall fillets or slats intersecting each other or bent at right angles, as in classical designs, or at obilique angles, as often in Oriental art.
- 18noun
The reticulated headdress or net, made of gold or silver wire, in which ladies in the Middle Ages confined their hair.
- 19noun
A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- 20noun
A short piece of wire, or other material fixed across the finger board of a guitar or a similar instrument, to indicate where the finger is to be placed.
- 21transitive verb
To furnish with frets, as an instrument of music.
- 22noun
a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch
- 23noun
an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
"there was a simple fret at the top of the walls"
- 24noun
a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
- 25noun
agitation resulting from active worry
"don't get in a stew"
"he's in a sweat about exams"
- 26verb
wear away or erode
- 27verb
remove soil or rock
"Rain eroded the terraces"
Synonyms
- 28verb
cause friction
"my sweater scratches"
- 29verb
be too tight; rub or press
"This neckband is choking the cat"
- 30verb
decorate with an interlaced design
- 31verb
carve a pattern into
- 32verb
be agitated or irritated
"don't fret over these small details"
- 33verb
gnaw into; make resentful or angry
"The injustice rankled her"
"his resentment festered"
- 34verb
cause annoyance in
- 35verb
worry unnecessarily or excessively
"don't fuss too much over the grandchildren--they are quite big now"
- 36verb
become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- 37verb
provide (a musical instrument) with frets
"fret a guitar"
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