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fretverb to consume or wear away graduallyover the span of thousands of years, the annual spring runoff fretted the rock, forming a deep channel bite (at), corrode, eat, erode, gnaw, nibble break down, break up, decompose, disintegrate, dissolvedecimate, destroy, devastate, ruin, waste, wreck freshen, recreate, refresh, refreshen, regenerate, rejuvenate, renew, restore, revitalize, revive to damage or diminish by continued frictiondon't let the girth fret the horse's belly or you won't be able to ride him abrade, chafe, corrade, erode, fray, frazzle, gall, rasp, rub, wear file, gnaw, grate, graze, grind, nibble, sandblast, sandpaper, scour, scrape, scuff, shaveerase, reduce, rub out, wear out, wipe (away)bite, break down, break up, chew, corrode, decompose, disintegrate, dissolve, eathone, sharpen, whet to experience concern or anxietydon't fret over whether it will be sunny tomorrow, as there's nothing we can do about it bother, fear, fuss, stew, stress, sweat, trouble, worry agonizelong, pine, yearnchafedespair give a hang(or care a hang), sweat blood acceptabide, bear, endure, stick out, stomach, sustain, take, tolerate to make sore by continued rubbingthe stiff, starchy collar was fretting my neck, and I couldn't wait to change out of that costume abrade, chafe, excoriate, gall, irritate graze, scrape, scratchburn, inflame(also enflame)flay, peel, skin fretnouna state of nervous or irritated concernone of my customers always gets into a fret if I'm so much as 15 minutes late delivering his newspaper dither, fluster, fuss, huff, lather, pother, stew, sweat, swelter, swivet, tizzy, twitter bother, dudgeon, piquealarm(also alarum), hand-wringing, panicado, agitation, delirium, distraction, furor, hysteria, uproarnervous breakdown in the 12th century |