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Meanings of fray in English
Synonyms
Examples for "scratch"
Examples for "scratch"
1
The change would allow companies to build new commercial airports from scratch.
2
Problem is, with a new virus, scientists have to start from scratch.
3
This company was started from scratch and was delivered within a year.
4
Or he'll take a new sheet of paper and start from scratch.
5
The South Sudan government had to almost build the country from scratch.
1
A headstrong approach will almost definitely rub others up the wrong way!
2
But that's the rub: there are tens of thousands of civilians there.
3
It was arousing to feel another's power rub against yours that way.
4
Stew tomatoes slowly one-half hour; rub through strainer; heat and add soda.
5
You have beaten Austria, it is true; but Russia-thereis the rub.
1
We fret over which areas will get flooded as sea levels rise.
2
Unfortunately, for now, there is far more to fret about than celebrate.
3
The lily may grow; the man must fret and toil and spin.
4
We fret about mass extinction, but not enough to change our habits.
5
Don't fret, because no qualifications are necessary to trade as an accountant.
1
Many Uighurs chafe at Chinese government controls on their culture and religion.
2
Nonentities are never slandered; they chafe because they are left in peace.
3
The strings crossed, and the upper began to chafe the lower savagely.
4
His terrible headache made him chafe at any prolonging of the scene.
5
But perhaps inevitably, the bonds between the team eventually start to chafe.
Usage of fray in English
1
I thought it was the result of the fray in the Tower.
2
As always, political issues are starting to enter the fray, he said.
3
Analysts say the army is loath to step into the political fray.
4
They had been able to join the fray at a critical moment.
5
They had been, in their time, in the thick of the fray.
6
The combat became fierce, and the king went forward in the fray.
7
But now the jam and egg party was joining in the fray.
8
By this time the fray was spirited and picturesque in the extreme.
9
At that time, Jean Vernocq was in the midst of the fray.
10
I was with Bacon in '76, in the fray with the Susquehannocks.
11
Right about now their sense of wellbeing may be starting to fray.
12
I was determined to be of the fray; my blood was up.
13
Mr Webb, scenting victory, was trying to rise above the fray yesterday.
14
With Volcan out, only two potential bidders likely remain in the fray.
15
Yet this may be Jeb's only moment to jump into the fray.
16
Max laughed and longed for the fray; he was beginning to live.
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Fray through the time
Fray across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common