Fray
[freɪ] or [fre]
Definition
(verb.) wear away by rubbing; 'The friction frayed the sleeve'.
Checker: Marge--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Affray; broil; contest; combat.
(v. t.) To frighten; to terrify; to alarm.
(v. t.) To bear the expense of; to defray.
(v. t.) To rub; to wear off, or wear into shreds, by rubbing; to fret, as cloth; as, a deer is said to fray her head.
(v. i.) To rub.
(v. i.) To wear out or into shreads, or to suffer injury by rubbing, as when the threads of the warp or of the woof wear off so that the cross threads are loose; to ravel; as, the cloth frays badly.
(n.) A fret or chafe, as in cloth; a place injured by rubbing.
Typed by Kevin
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Combat, battle, fight.[2]. Broil, quarrel, riot, affray.
v. a. Rub, wear, fret.
Typist: Serena
Definition
n. an affray a brawl.—v.t. (B.) to frighten.
v.t. to wear off by rubbing: to ravel out the edge of a stuff.—v.i. to become frayed.—n. Fray′ing the action of the verb fray: ravellings.
Typed by Elinor
Examples
- He rushes to the fray as if he were summoned to a banquet. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Ten of us can take the throne, for I had seen that Issus' guards had for the most part entered the fray within the arena. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- A great many men, when they smell battle afar off, chafe to get into the fray. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- You could not observe that from here, but if you were on the mantelpiece you would see that it is cut clean off without any mark of fraying whatever. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Then he carefully scrutinized the broken and frayed end where it had snapped off when the burglar had dragged it down. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- But the other end is not frayed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was certainly more roomy than the ordinary four-wheeled disgrace to London, and the fittings, though frayed, were of rich quality. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Because it is frayed there? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- This formidable baron was clad in a leathern doublet, fitted close to his body, which was frayed and soiled with the stains of his armour. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I'm 'fraid not, Mas'r, said Tom, with a grave face. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- O, my dear young Mas'r; I'm 'fraid it will be _loss of all--all_--body and soul. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Editor: Maris