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fretsnounpl. of fret a 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 dithers, flusters, fusses, huffs, lathers, pothers, stews, sweats, swelters, swivets, tizzies, twitters bothers, dudgeons, piquesalarms(also alarums), hand-wringings, panicsados, agitations, deliriums, distractions, furors, hysterias, uproarsnervous breakdowns fretsverbpresent tense third-person singular of fretto consume or wear away graduallyover the span of thousands of years, the annual spring runoff fretted the rock, forming a deep channel bites (at), corrodes, eats, erodes, gnaws, nibbles breaks down, breaks up, decomposes, disintegrates, dissolvesdecimates, destroys, devastates, ruins, wastes, wrecks freshens, recreates, refreshens, refreshes, regenerates, rejuvenates, renews, restores, revitalizes, revives 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 abrades, chafes, corrades, erodes, frays, frazzles, galls, rasps, rubs, wears files, gnaws, grates, grazes, grinds, nibbles, sandblasts, sandpapers, scours, scrapes, scuffs, shaveserases, reduces, rubs out, wears out, wipes (away)bites, breaks down, breaks up, chews, corrodes, decomposes, disintegrates, dissolves, eatshones, sharpens, whets to experience concern or anxietydon't fret over whether it will be sunny tomorrow, as there's nothing we can do about it bothers, fears, fusses, stews, stresses, sweats, troubles, worries agonizeslongs, pines, yearnschafesdespairs gives a hang(or cares a hang), sweats blood acceptsabides, bears, endures, sticks out, stomachs, sustains, takes, tolerates to make sore by continued rubbingthe stiff, starchy collar was fretting my neck, and I couldn't wait to change out of that costume abrades, chafes, excoriates, galls, irritates grazes, scrapes, scratchesburns, inflames(also enflames)flays, peels, skins |