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fret

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verb (1)

ˈfret How to pronounce fret (audio)
fretted; fretting

transitive verb

1
a
: to eat or gnaw into : corrode
also : fray
The acid fretted the metal.
b
: rub, chafe
The harness strap was fretting the horse.
c
: to make by wearing away a substance
the stream fretted a channel
2
: to cause to suffer emotional strain : vex
don't you fret yourself about me J. C. Powys
3
: to pass (time) in fretting
a poor player who struts and frets his hour upon the stage William Shakespeare
4
: agitate, ripple
fret the surface of the lake

intransitive verb

1
a
: to eat into something
b
: to affect something as if by gnawing or biting : grate
the … urgent voice fretted at his nerves Graham Greene
2
a
: wear, corrode
Marble frets away due to the rain.
b
: chafe
His back where the harness rubbed began to fret.
c
: fray sense 1
3
a
: to become vexed or worried
fretting over the high cost of feeding their families Vance Packard
b
of running water : to become agitated
a brook fretting over rocks

fret

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noun (1)

1
a
: the action of wearing away : erosion
b
: a worn or eroded spot
2
: an agitation of mind : irritation

fret

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verb (2)

fretted; fretting

transitive verb

1
a
: to decorate with interlaced designs
b
: to form a pattern upon
2
: to enrich with embossed or pierced carved patterns

fret

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noun (2)

1
: an ornamental network
especially : a medieval metallic or jeweled net for a woman's headdress
2
: an ornament or ornamental work often in relief consisting of small straight bars intersecting one another in right or oblique angles

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fret

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noun (3)

: one of a series of ridges fixed across the fingerboard of a stringed musical instrument (such as a guitar)
fretless adjective
fretted adjective

fret

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verb (3)

fretted; fretting

transitive verb

: to press (the strings of a stringed instrument) against the frets

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Fret and Eating

The meat-and-potatoes meaning of fret is "to eat." The verb is used literally, as in "Moths fretted the clothing," but more often figuratively to describe actions that corrode or wear away. A river "frets away" at its banks, or something might be said to be "fretted out" with time or age. Fret also applies to emotional experiences so that something that "eats away at someone" is "fretting the heart or mind."

Synonyms

Verb (1)

Noun (1)

Word History

Etymology

Verb (1) and Noun (1)

Middle English, to devour, fret, from Old English fretan to devour; akin to Old High German frezzan to devour, ezzan to eat — more at eat

Verb (2)

Middle English, back-formation from fret, fretted adorned, interwoven, from Anglo-French fretté, past participle of fretter to tie, probably from Vulgar Latin *firmitare, from Latin firmus firm

Noun (3)

perhaps from Middle French frete ferrule, from freter

First Known Use

Verb (1)

12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a

Noun (1)

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Verb (2)

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Noun (2)

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Noun (3)

circa 1500, in the meaning defined above

Verb (3)

1602, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of fret was in the 12th century

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