fret

Significado (English)

Noun

1. Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
2. Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
3. Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
4. The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.

Verb

1. (obsolete) Especially when describing animals: to consume, devour, or eat.
2. To chafe or irritate; to worry.
3. To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
4. In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
5. To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
6. To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
7. To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
8. To be anxious, to worry.
9. To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
10. To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.

Verb

1. To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
2. To form a pattern on; to variegate.
3. To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.

Verb

1. To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
2. Musical senses.
3. Musical senses.

Synonyms

worry

chafe

fray

eat away

fuss

irritate

rub

rankle

irritation

erode

gall

worry about

scratch

wear away

annoy

swither

anxious

bother

chafe at

sweat

😓

pique

lather

vex

irk

stew

🍲

grate

grieve

repine

Greek fret

Greek key

key pattern

worn spot

rile

abrade

ail

aggravate

gag

despond

tatter

tease

choke

trouble

uneasiness

eat

🍽️

vexation

wear down

niggle

eat into

eat up

anxiety

be worried

exacerbate

pester

exasperate

get impatient

get nervous

corrode

become irritated

provoke

fidget

heckle

incinerate

incite

incommode

inconvenience

infest

inflame

interlace

jar

🫙

jitter

jumpiness

ken

key

🔑

lay out

lose one’s head

malaise

miff

mope

nag

nark

nervous

nettle

obsess

passion

peeve

perforate

perturbation

pine

plague

plangent

pother

rag

restiveness

restlessness

ripple

rosin

rub down

scour

scuff

solicitude

spend

spite

stimulate

sulk

take pains

temper

unrest

use up

wear

wear off

whet

whine

wipe out

be peevish

chip away at

exert oneself

feel sorrow

get annoyed

grate on

jar on

make an effort

try hard

be fretful

get anxious

be fretty

be worn away

fretted lead

vexedness

lead came

carved patterns

afflict

agitate

agitation

alarm

apprehensiveness

badger

🦡

be anxious

bedevil

begrudge

beleaguer

beset

bite

blackguard

bullyrag

burn

came

carve

complain

concern

consume

cry

😢

degrade

derange

despair

device

devil

devour

digital

discomfort

discommode

discomposure

disgruntle

disorder

displeasure

disquiet

disquietude

distress

disturb

disturbance

dither

drain

droop

drop

dun

dysphoria

engrave

excite

expend

ferret

fidgety

fool away

get

get through

get to

goad

gravel

harass

harry

hassle

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/fɹɛt/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from inglês médio: frēten

Inherited from inglês arcaico: fretan

Cognate with francês: fretter

Cognate with holandês: vreten

Cognate with baixo alemão: freten

Cognate with alemão: fressen

Cognate with gótico: 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽

Cognate with sueco: fräta

Cognate with dinamarquês: fråse

Inherited from inglês médio: freten

Cognate with francês: frette

In summary

table
From Middle English frēten (“to eat (at), corrode, destroy, annoy”), from Old English fretan (“to eat up, devour; to fret; to break, burst”), from Proto-West Germanic *fraetan, from Proto-Germanic *fraetaną (“to consume, devour, eat up”), from Proto-Germanic *fra- (“for-, prefix meaning ‘completely, fully’”) (from Proto-Indo-European *pro- (“forward, toward”)) + *etaną (“to eat”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (“to eat”)).
The senses meaning “to chafe, rub” could also be due to sound-association with Anglo-Norman *freiter (modern dialectal French fretter), from Vulgar Latin *frictāre, frequentative of Latin fricāre, from fricō (“to chafe, rub”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreyH- (“to cut”); compare Old French froter (modern French frotter). The chief difficulty is the lack of evidence of the Old French word.
cognates
*Dutch vreten, fretten (“to devour, hog, wolf”)
*Low German freten (“to eat up”)
*German fressen (“to devour, gobble up, guzzle”)
*Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (fraitan, “to devour”)
*Swedish fräta (“to eat away, corrode, fret”)
*Danish fråse (“to gorge”)