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Meanings of fretted in English

Having a pattern of fretwork or latticework.

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Having frets.

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Usage of fretted in English
1
Maybe calling in FISPA hadn't been such a great idea, she fretted.
Fiendish deeds
2
Across the street, in the Sprockett home, the baby wailed and fretted.
Spring Street / A Story of Los Angeles
3
Her victory sent shares plunging as investors fretted about the leftist president.
Reuters
4
Kaitlan fretted her way out of the office and up the hall.
Dark pursuit
5
Rose had never fretted nor annoyed him; she seemed always to understand.
Old Rose and Silver
6
Slowly we pushed in among the fretted network of branches and leaves.
The Island of Dr. Moreau
7
Investors fretted over Takeda's ability to buy a company twice its size.
Reuters
8
His cob fretted at the autumn flies and whinnied to be gone.
The Henchman
9
All the afternoon she had been a complicated tangle of fretted nerves.
The Coming of Bill
10
They took the child from his mother, and she fretted and died.
The Vultures
11
He neither fretted nor fumed at the time this travel was taking.
Never-Fail Blake
12
Through the night, under skies fretted with lightning, the Wondership shot forward.
The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone
13
Now she fretted over who else knew she was back in town.
Truths unveiled
14
I fretted then, sighed, wept, was distracted; had neither rest nor counsel.
The Confessions of St. Augustine
15
And then mother fretted a little that I had no evening-dress ready.
Esther : a book for girls
16
But it fretted her more than she permitted any one to see.
Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper
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Fretted across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common