Definition of fret

"fret" in the noun sense

1. fret, stew, sweat, lather, swither

agitation resulting from active worry

"don't get in a stew"

"he's in a sweat about exams"

2. worn spot, fret

a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion

3. fret, Greek fret, Greek key, key pattern

an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief

"there was a simple fret at the top of the walls"

4. fret

a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch

"fret" in the verb sense

1. fuss, niggle, fret

worry unnecessarily or excessively

"don't fuss too much over the grandchildren

2. fret

be agitated or irritated

"don't fret over these small details"

3. fret

provide (a musical instrument) with frets

"fret a guitar"

4. chafe, gall, fret

become or make sore by or as if by rubbing

5. fret

cause annoyance in

6. eat into, fret, rankle, grate

gnaw into make resentful or angry

"The injustice rankled her"

"his resentment festered"

7. fret

carve a pattern into

8. fret

decorate with an interlaced design

9. choke, gag, fret

be too tight rub or press

"This neckband is choking the cat"

10. rub, fray, fret, chafe, scratch

cause friction

"my sweater scratches"

11. erode, eat away, fret

remove soil or rock

"Rain eroded the terraces"

12. fret, eat away

wear away or erode

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Quotations for fret

Scorn'd, to be scorn'd by one that I scorn,
Is that a matter to make me fret?
That a calamity hard to be borne? [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Yes - it was love - if thoughts of tenderness.
Tried in temptation, strengthened by distress,
Unmoved by absence, firm in every clime,
And yet - oh more than all! - untired by time.
Which nor defeated hope, nor baffled wile,
Could render sullen were she near to smile,
Nor rage could fire, nor sickness fret to vent
On her one murmur of his discontent;
Which still would meet with joy, with calmness part.
Lest that his look of grief should reach her heart;
Which nought removed, nor menaced to remove -
If there be love in mortals— this was love! [ Byron ]

Yon gray lines that fret the clouds are messengers of day. [ William Shakespeare ]

Injuries from friends fret and gall more, and the memory of them is not so easily obliterated. [ Arbuthnot ]

Let us be content, in work, to do the thing we CAN and not presume to fret because it's little. [ E. B. Browning ]

I am constitutionally susceptible of noises; a carpenter's hammer, in a warm summer noon, will fret me into more than midsummer madness; but those unconnected, unset sounds are nothing to the measured malice of music. [ C. Lamb ]

fret in Scrabble®

The word fret is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters fret:

FRET
(33)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word fret

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The 55 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In fret

FRET
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fret in Words With Friends™

The word fret is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters fret:

FRET
(45)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word fret

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(27)
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The 59 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In fret

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Words containing the sequence fret

Words with fret in them (5 words)

Words that end with fret (2 words)

Word Growth involving fret

Shorter words in fret

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Longer words containing fret

fretboard fretboards

fretful fretfully

fretful fretfulness

fretless

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fretted refretted

fretted unfretted

fretter fretters

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frettiest

fretting frettingly

fretting frettings

fretting refretting

fretty

fretwork fretworked

fretwork fretworks

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refret refretting