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

Words that contain FRETTING

frettings13 befretting16

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.

Similar words containing FRETT without suffix ing

fretty12 fretted11 fretter10 fretters11 frettier11 befretted15 frettiest12 frettings13 unfretted13 befretting16 interfretted16

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