fretted
Meaning of fretted
verb
- Especially when describing animals: to consume, devour, or eat.
- To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
to fret the surface of water
- In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
A wristband frets on the edges.
- To be anxious, to worry.
- To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
Rancour frets in the malignant breast.
- To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or with carving or relief (raised) work.
- To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- Musical senses.
- (of a musical instrument) Having frets.
The dulcimer and sitar are fretted instruments.
- Decorated with fretwork.
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Hyphenation of fretted
fret-ted
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- fretted is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
fretted synonyms
Meaning interlaced:
interlaced, latticed, latticelike
fretted antonyms
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Words that rhyme with fretted
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