Definition of fret

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Fret (v. i.) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray; as, a wristband frets on the edges..

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Spleeny :: Spleeny (a.) Irritable; peevish; fretful.
Chafe :: Chafe (v. t.) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
Fretful :: Fretful (a.) Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper..
Fretted :: Fretted (p. p. & a.) Agitated; vexed; worried.
Fret :: Fret (n.) Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation; as, he keeps his mind in a continual fret..
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..
Refret :: Refret (n.) Refrain.
Gall :: Gall (v. t.) To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable..
Fret :: Fret (n.) See 1st Frith.
Fretum :: Fretum (n.) A strait, or arm of the sea..
Fretter :: Fretter (n.) One who, or that which, frets..
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..
Exulceration :: Exulceration (n.) A fretting; a festering; soreness.
Pomfret :: Pomfret (n.) A marine food fish of Bermuda (Brama Raji).
Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To ornament with raised work; to variegate; to diversify.
Gnaw :: Gnaw (v. t.) To corrode; to fret away; to waste.
Fretty :: Fretty (a.) Adorned with fretwork.
Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To devour.
Cankeredly :: Cankeredly (adv.) Fretfully; spitefully.
Irritability :: Irritability (n.) The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper..
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