fret
烦人,烦躁不安的人,烦躁不安,烦恼
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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.
- : to become eaten, worn, or corroded: Limestone slowly frets away under pounding by the wind and rain.
- : to move in agitation or commotion, as water: water fretting over the stones of a brook.
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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.
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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.