Fret



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• v. / n. ( 使) 烦躁, 焦虑
• ［英］ v. / n. ( 使) 烦躁, 焦虑 ( to irritate; vex; annoy; worry)
• ［例］ He fretted all the time for news of her.

Webster Collegiate

I. verb (fretted; fretting)

• Etymology: 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
• Date: 12th century
• transitive verb
  • 1.
    • a. to eat or gnaw into ; corrode; also fray
    • b. rub, chafe
    • c. to make by wearing away a substance <the stream fretted a channel>
  • 2. to cause to suffer emotional strain ; vex
  • 3. to pass (as time) in fretting
  • 4. agitate, ripple
• intransitive verb
  • 1.
    • a. to eat into something
    • b. to affect something as if by gnawing or biting ; grate
  • 2.
    • a. wear, corrode
    • b. chafe
    • c. fray 1
  • 3.
    • a. to become vexed or worried
    • b. of running water to become agitated

II. noun

• Date: 15th century
• 1.
  • a. the action of wearing away ; erosion
  • b. a worn or eroded spot
• 2. an agitation of mind ; irritation

III. transitive verb (fretted; fretting)

• Etymology: 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
• Date: 14th century
• 1.
  • a. to decorate with interlaced designs
  • b. to form a pattern upon
• 2. to enrich with embossed or pierced carved patterns

IV. noun

• Date: 14th century
• 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

V. noun

• Etymology: perhaps from Middle French frete ferrule, from freter
• Date: circa 1500
• ［trn］ one of a series of ridges fixed across the fingerboard of a stringed musical instrument (as a guitar)

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