Fray

What do we mean by fray?

To strain; chafe. intransitive verb

To wear away (the edges of fabric, for example) by rubbing. intransitive verb

To become worn away or tattered along the edges. intransitive verb

A frayed or threadbare spot, as on fabric. noun

A fight; a brawl. synonym: brawl. noun

A heated dispute or intensely competitive situation. noun

A military engagement; a battle. noun

To alarm; frighten. transitive verb

To drive away. transitive verb

To put in fear; terrify; frighten; deter by fear.

To maltreat; misuse.

To contend; combat; fight.

To rub; grate.

To rub away the surface of; fret, as cloth by wearing, or the skin by friction; especially, to ravel out the edge of, as a piece of stuff, by drawing out threads of the warp so that the threads of the weft make a kind of fringe: in this sense usually with out.

To rub against something.

To yield to rubbing or fretting; ravel out, as cloth.

An affray; a battle; an assault; a quarrel with violence. noun

A brawl; a riot; a mêlée. noun

A chase; a hunt. noun

Synonyms Mêlée, Brawl, etc. See quarrel, n. noun

To (cause to) unravel; used particularly for the edge of something made of cloth, or the end of a rope.

To cause exhaustion, wear out (a person's mental strength).

Frighten; alarm

To bear the expense of; to defray.

To rub.

Words that are spelled similarly to fray:
fray.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word fray:
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Words that rhyme with fray:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe fray:
political, bloody, deadly, electoral, desperate, mortal, partisan, furious, drunken, fierce, competitive, dreadful, sudden, fiery, fatal, unequal, terrible, noble, fearful, shooting, late, verbal, glorious, mighty, wild, horrid, legal, daily, impending, doubtful, serious, the, fair, intellectual, above, sharp, ideological, murderous, thickest, parliamentary, sanguinary, commercial, bloodless, petty, violent, fiercest, clamorous, bitter, literary, expected, savage, martial, emotional, mimic, melodious, battle, gallant, awful, holy, appalling, smoky, obstinate, hand, wordy, polemical, distant, theological, senseless.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective fray:
fournier, bentos, teez, witzer.

Consonant match to fray:
free, fry, fro, frew, frey, frau, frye, frei, froh, freeh, frueh.

Words that sound like fray:
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