Fretting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FRETTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• 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
NOUN:
• peevishness
• 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.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to worry
• present participle of fret

Words related to FRETTING

fret7 frets8 fretted11

How to use FRETTING in a sentence

• Then you feel your horse fretting and suddenly you start from your daze, and fear changes suddenly to hate.
• Curiously it made her think of some splendid animal created for liberty, and fretting its heart out in utter, hopeless misery on a chain.
• To accept being past her prime of life would be simpler perhaps, and productive of less anguish, than fretting over what could not be changed.
• They managed to put the thing back for a week or two till I was nearly drove mad with fretting, and being doubtful which way it would go.
• You have broke The worse than iron band, fretting the soul, By which you held me captive.
• ANNE God help Maire! She kept the house together at the worst, and she is always fretting for us.
• She accused me of having designs on you, insisting all the while that every one was talking about it, and that she was fretting solely because of my good name.
• And, if all went well, he would soon be able to answer these questions that were fretting him.
• It is no good you fretting and worrying yourself, Miss Etta, to prevent those two coming together.
• None of this did he realise, neither did Hilaria, so they were spared much unhappiness, merely fretting blindly without knowing why.
• Indeed, they would poison her, or pinch her to death in a month, and then come to tell me she had died of fretting.
• For days he labored feverishly, forgetting to eat, fretting because the sun set and the darkness held sway for so long.
• All this week I have feared that you were fretting at the loneliness and the rough surroundings.
• Goldie felt the sting of her whip when she brought him back into the road, and, from merely fretting, he took to plunging angrily.
• Is it worth so much fretting? It is a merry life on the whole.
• The old Squire had seen Maine weather for many years and had learned the uselessness of fretting.
• A few weeks ago you were fretting yourselves to death about Dick.
• She could not take them into the wilderness with her, so they were in a town, and she was here in the forest, making things for them and fretting about them and longing for them.
• She saw her son, no longer young, wan with dissipation and excess, peevish and fretting for the luxuries which she herself, old and decrepit, could no longer procure for him.
• I believe if it had not been for her pride in her brilliant daughter and her famous son-in-law she would have become actually ill with fretting.
• Allowed more indulgence in food, he soon stopped fretting, and became a healthy, lively baby.
• The tracks of the fretting ponies showed that clearly.
• You will also see that there is no necessity for my father, mother, sisters or relations fretting about me.
• Pendleton supposed Sisily was fretting over her mother, but she did not understand a girl whose grief took the form of silence and stillness.
• Like salt-marshes, that lie low, they are sure, whenever the sea of this world rages, to be first under, and embarrened with a fretting care.
• I was anxious that my wife should make a favorable impression on my people, and in turn she was fretting about my general appearance.
• He must in all this wait with patience, without fretting or quarrelling with him for his delaying to come.
• It might be the fretting night wind, or a stealthy, prowling, soft-footed beast, or a savage alien to these wild Indians, and wilder than they by far.
• He never wasted any of his nervous energy in scolding, fretting, or worrying.
• It moulded itself to all the turns and outlines of my body without fretting me.
• I was fretting with the fear that the dawn would have broken before I could get away.
• Jan, in his rough, stupid way, tells me I am fretting myself into my grave.
• But from that night until the end came, there was but one thing happened to tell save a series of innumerable small unpleasant details and the fretting of an incessant uneasiness.

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