fret 的 3 个定义
fret·ted, fret·ting.
- to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like: Fretting about the lost ring isn't going to help.
- to cause corrosion; gnaw into something: acids that fret at the strongest metals.
- to make a way by gnawing, corrosion, wearing away, etc.: The river frets at its banks until a new channel is formed.
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fret·ted, fret·ting.
- to torment; irritate, annoy, or vex: You mustn't fret yourself about that.
- to wear away or consume by gnawing, friction, rust, corrosives, etc.: the ocean fretting its shores.
- to form or make by wearing away a substance: The river had fretted an underground passage.
- to agitate: Strong winds were fretting the channel.
fret 近义词
worry, be annoyed
upset someone
rub hard
更多fret例句
- There is however a not-paranoid or market-driven reason to fret, albeit a VERY small one.
- Even assuming Wyoming is safe, however, Republicans are right to fret.
- In recent weeks, it has been fashionable (and even rational) to fret about the U.S. industrial economy.
- Not to fret—The Daily Beast breaks down the talking points that will keep things civil while eating your turkey.
- The “all clear” for many of the 10,000 possibly exposed campers will not be given till early October—a long time to fret.
- Rose, l. 4705, And through the fret full, read A trouthe fret full.'
- Hence were, in the next line, must mean to wear away, to fret; cf. note to 4712.
- Strange to say, to the astonishment of all but Lucy, young Mrs. Haggard continued to "fret."
- Davie would be well away, for he would fret about his grandmother, and that would do neither of them any good.
- And the woman laughed, and said, Truly, thou doest ill to fret thyself for such a matter.