Fretted
['frɛtɪd]
Definition
(adj.) having a pattern of fretwork or latticework .
(adj.) having frets .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Fret
(p. p. & a.) Rubbed or worn away; chafed.
(p. p. & a.) Agitated; vexed; worried.
(p. p. & a.) Ornamented with fretwork; furnished with frets; variegated; made rough on the surface.
(p. p. & a.) Interlaced one with another; -- said of charges and ordinaries.
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Examples
- But a Greek republic would have been dangerous to all monarchy in a Europe that fretted under the ideas of the Holy Alliance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Through the deep throng it could pass but slowly; the spirited horses fretted in their curbed ardour. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In my youth, I should have chafed and fretted under the irritation of my own unreasonable state of mind. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- These were crimes his elders fretted over among themselves and proposed to punish when the opportunity should offer. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It fretted him to think the visit might never be repeated. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He fretted, pished, and pshawed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Our lives, we see with a growing certitude, are fretted and shadowed and spoilt because there is as yet no worldwide law, no certain justice. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Every intelligent Genoese sailor fretted at the trading monopoly of Venice, and tried to invent some way of getting through it or round it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I fretted and fumed all next day, and raised a great disturbance,' rejoined the old gentleman. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Only I fretted again it, and they didn't. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- She was sure it was very illit cried, and fretted, and was all over pimples. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
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