Definition of fret

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Fret (v. t.) To make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple; as, to fret the surface of water..

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Fretted :: Fretted (p. p. & a.) Agitated; vexed; worried.
Petulant :: Petulant (a.) Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill-natured freakishness; irritable.
Irritate :: Irritate (n.) To make morbidly excitable, or oversensitive; to fret; as, the skin is irritated by friction; to irritate a wound by a coarse bandage..
Testify :: Testify (adv.) In a testy manner; fretfully; peevishly; with petulance.
Gnaw :: Gnaw (v. t.) To corrode; to fret away; to waste.
Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To ornament with raised work; to variegate; to diversify.
Querulous :: Querulous (v.) Expressing complaint; fretful; whining; as, a querulous tone of voice..
Worry :: Worry (v. i.) To feel or express undue care and anxiety; to manifest disquietude or pain; to be fretful; to chafe; as, the child worries; the horse worries..
Marline :: Marline (v.) A small line composed of two strands a little twisted, used for winding around ropes and cables, to prevent their being weakened by fretting..
Ripple :: Ripple (v. i.) To become fretted or dimpled on the surface, as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom; to be covered with small waves or undulations, as a field of grain..
Impatience :: Impatience (n.) The quality of being impatient; want of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid..
Chafe :: Chafe (v. t.) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
Spleenless :: Spleenish (a.) Spleeny; affected with spleen; fretful.
Fretwork :: Fretwork (n.) Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Hence, any minute play of light and shade, dark and light, or the like..
Testiness :: Testiness (n.) The quality or state of being testy; fretfulness; petulance.
Refret :: Refret (n.) Refrain.
Cankered :: Cankered (a.) Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured..
Pettish :: Pettish (a.) Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper.
Fretty :: Fretty (a.) Adorned with fretwork.
Pock-fretten :: Pock-fretten (a.) See Pockmarked.
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