Fretted is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FRETTED in dictionary:

VERB:
• FRET, to worry
• be constantly or visibly anxious
• cause anxiety to
• gradually wear away (something) by rubbing or gnawing
• form (a channel or passage) by rubbing or wearing away
• flow or move in small waves
• decorate with fretwork
• provide (a stringed instrument) with frets
• play (a note) while pressing the string down against a fret
PREPOSITION:
• Rubbed or worn away; chafed.
• Agitated; vexed; worried.
• Ornamented with fretwork; furnished with frets; variegated; made rough on the surface.
• Interlaced one with another; -- said of charges and ordinaries.
NOUN:
• a state of anxiety
• a repeating ornamental design of vertical and horizontal lines, such as the Greek key pattern.
• a device of narrow diagonal bands interlaced through a diamond.
• each of a sequence of ridges on the fingerboard of some stringed musical instruments (such as the guitar), used for fixing the positions of the fingers to produce the desired notes.
• a mist coming in off the sea; a sea fog.
ADJECTIVE:
• having frets
• having a pattern of fretwork or latticework
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• past tense of fret

Words related to FRETTED

fret7 frets8 fretting12

How to use FRETTED in a sentence

• We cannot bear to have our thin wardrobe eaten and fretted into by moths.
• She had a veil like fretted pearls through which her tinted arm shone faintly, and the shadow of a single scarlet leaf trembled through a curtain upon her forehead.
• Once they made him wear a brace but he fretted so he was downright ill.
• With a sudden impulse he entered and leaned against one of the fretted columns.
• She had danced frantically in seeking to forget them, but the string pulled by the clown fretted her more and more.
• A gentle wind fretted the loose tendrils of brown hair about her face.
• His voice was soon reduced to a whisper by continued shouting, and he raged and fretted over trifles till he wore himself thin.
• Would she have welcomed Eric? There again was the miserable complication! All the next day I watched and fretted.
• So she fretted, and stormed, and cried, and felt just as badly as she chose.
• We are in no condition for good work of any kind when we are fretted and anxious in mind.
• O fretted heart tossed to and fro, So fain to flee, so fain to rest! All glories that are high or low, East or west, Grow dim to thee who art so fain to go.
• It fretted him always, and infuriated him at times, to discover that she was likely to justify his contempt by proving a poor wife after all.
• Although she fretted herself greatly under the infliction of Lady Midlothian, she acknowledged to herself, even at the time, that she deserved all the lashes she received.
• The outdoor girls enjoyed their life in the orange grove, but Grace fretted because no word came from her brother.
• Outside in the fading sunlight, the horses of the rurales stamped and fretted.
• The fact is, I am involved in a case which has fretted me to death, and I have no reliance except on you to extricate me.
• It fretted him that he did not know who the fellow was.
• There never was a boy or girl who was worried over, who was not annoyed, fretted, injured, and cursed by it, instead of being benefited.
• He rode a bright bay steed, which fretted under his hand like a whirlwind.
• Slowly we pushed in among the fretted network of branches and leaves.
• She tried in vain to adapt herself to her new surroundings, and during the first few weeks she fretted herself quite out of health.
• Voices of dead centuries murmured low music down the fretted vault.

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