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"word": "fretsome"
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"word": "fret the gizzard"
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"word": "fretting leprosy"
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"word": "fretty"
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"4": "",
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"2": "*etaną",
"3": "",
"4": "to eat"
},
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{
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"5": "to eat"
},
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "vreten"
},
"expansion": "Dutch vreten",
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "fretten",
"3": "",
"4": "to devour, hog, wolf"
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{
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"3": "",
"4": "to eat up"
},
"expansion": "Low German freten (“to eat up”)",
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},
{
"args": {
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"2": "fressen",
"3": "",
"4": "to devour, gobble up, guzzle"
},
"expansion": "German fressen (“to devour, gobble up, guzzle”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "got",
"2": "𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽",
"3": "",
"4": "to devour"
},
"expansion": "Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (fraitan, “to devour”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "fräta",
"3": "",
"4": "to eat away, corrode, fret"
},
"expansion": "Swedish fräta (“to eat away, corrode, fret”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "fråse",
"3": "",
"4": "to gorge"
},
"expansion": "Danish fråse (“to gorge”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "xno",
"2": "*freiter"
},
"expansion": "Anglo-Norman *freiter",
"name": "noncog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dialectal"
},
"expansion": "dialectal",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "fretter"
},
"expansion": "French fretter",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "VL.",
"2": "*frictāre"
},
"expansion": "Vulgar Latin *frictāre",
"name": "noncog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "frequentative"
},
"expansion": "frequentative",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "fricāre"
},
"expansion": "Latin fricāre",
"name": "noncog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "fricō",
"3": "",
"4": "to chafe, rub"
},
"expansion": "fricō (“to chafe, rub”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ine-pro",
"2": "*bʰreyH-",
"3": "",
"4": "to cut"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *bʰreyH- (“to cut”)",
"name": "noncog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "froter"
},
"expansion": "Old French froter",
"name": "noncog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "frotter"
},
"expansion": "French frotter",
"name": "noncog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "4"
},
"expansion": "⁴",
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"etymology_text": "table\nFrom Middle English frēten (“to eat (at), corrode, destroy, annoy”), from Old English fretan (“to eat up, devour; to fret; to break, burst”), from Proto-West Germanic *fraetan, from Proto-Germanic *fraetaną (“to consume, devour, eat up”), from Proto-Germanic *fra- (“for-, prefix meaning ‘completely, fully’”) (from Proto-Indo-European *pro- (“forward, toward”)) + *etaną (“to eat”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (“to eat”)).\nThe word is cognate with Dutch vreten, fretten (“to devour, hog, wolf”), Low German freten (“to eat up”), German fressen (“to devour, gobble up, guzzle”), Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (fraitan, “to devour”), Swedish fräta (“to eat away, corrode, fret”); and also related to Danish fråse (“to gorge”).\nThe senses meaning “to chafe, rub” could also be due to sound-association with Anglo-Norman *freiter (modern dialectal French fretter), from Vulgar Latin *frictāre, frequentative of Latin fricāre, from fricō (“to chafe, rub”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreyH- (“to cut”); compare Old French froter (modern French frotter). The chief difficulty is the lack of evidence of the Old French word.",
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{
"form": "frets",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "fretting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "fretted",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "fret",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "frate",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "fretted",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "fretten",
"tags": [
"in-compounds",
"participle",
"past",
"usually"
]
}
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"past2": "fret",
"past3": "frate",
"past_ptc2": "fretten",
"past_ptc2_qual": "usually in compounds"
},
"expansion": "fret (third-person singular simple present frets, present participle fretting, simple past fretted or fret or frate, past participle fretted or (usually in compounds) fretten)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
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{
"ref": "1609, Ammianus Marcellinus, chapter XIV, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Roman Historie, containing Such Acts and Occurrents as Passed under Constantius, Iulianus, Iovianus, Valentinianus, and Valens, Emperours, book IX, London: Printed by Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 322",
"text": "Their hearts alreadie fretted and cankered at the very roote, for the last disgrace received.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1727–1728, Mather Byles et al., edited by Bruce [Ingham] Granger, Proteus Echo (1727–28): A Series of Essays and Poems … that Appeared in the New-England Weekly Journal … (History of Psychology Series; 420), Delmar, N.Y.: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, published 1986, page 75",
"text": "And could we let a Light into their Bosoms, we should see them generally fretted and cankered with this secret and corroding Venom.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Especially when describing animals: to consume, devour, or eat."
],
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[
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"animal"
],
[
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"consume"
],
[
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"devour"
],
[
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"eat#Verb"
]
],
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"(transitive, obsolete or poetic) Especially when describing animals: to consume, devour, or eat."
],
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{
"ref": "1676, Richard Wiseman, “[A Treatise of Tumors.] Of an Herpes”, in Severall Chirurgical Treatises, London: Printed by E. Flesher and J[ohn] Macock, for R[ichard] Royston bookseller to His Most Sacred Majesty, and B[enjamin] Took at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-yard, →OCLC, page 80",
"text": "A Perſon of Honour, of a full Body abounding with ſharp Humours, was ſeized with an Herpes on his right Leg. [...] [I]t inflamed and ſwelled very much, many Wheals aroſe, and fretted one into another, with great Excoriation.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1823–1824, A[stley Paston] Cooper, “Lecture LII”, in The Lancet. [...] In Two Volumes, 3rd edition, volume II, London: Knight and Lacey, Paternoster-Row; and G. L. Hutchinson, the Lancet office, Strand, published 1826, →OCLC, pages 100–101",
"text": "We sometimes perform an operation on the under lip [...] in consequence of / Cancer Labii [cancer of the lips], / Which disease generally arises from the use of a pipe, and the manner in which it happens is this:—the adhesive nature of the clay of which the pipe is made, causes it to adhere to the lip; at length the cuticle becomes torn off, and the continued irritation frets the sore into true cancerous disease.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1882 June, [Margaret Oliphant], “The Ladies Lindores.—Part III.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CXXXI (American edition, volume XCIV), number DCCC, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Co., 41 Barclay Street, →OCLC, chapter VII, page 708, column 2",
"text": "Had Carry preferred mere wealth, weighed by such a master, to the congenial spirit of her former lover? It fretted the young man even to think of such a possibility. And the visitors had fretted him each in some special point.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"To chafe or irritate; to worry."
],
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry."
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"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bezpokoja",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "безпокоя"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pritesnjavam",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "притеснявам"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "piekeren"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "zorgen maken"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "verontrusten"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "hermoilla"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "olla huolissaan"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "inquiéter"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "tracasser"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "ronger"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "aufregen"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "ärgern"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "belästigen"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "beunruhigen"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "irritieren"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "stören"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "plagen"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "quälen"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "verärgern"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "adimonó",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "αδημονώ"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "izgat"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "nyugtalanít"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "despitigar"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "preoccupare"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "whakakunāwheke"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "whakakōingo"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "koroingo"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "freten"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "martwić się"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "niepokoić się"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bespokóitʹ",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "беспоко́ить"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "volnovátʹ",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "волнова́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "priuccupàrisi"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "scantàrisi"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "preocuparse"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 65 2 0 1 8 8 11 3 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "comerse la cabeza"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "to fret the surface of water",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple."
],
"id": "en-fret-en-verb-5-aqzj2D",
"links": [
[
"rough",
"rough#Adjective"
],
[
"agitate",
"agitate"
],
[
"disturb",
"disturb"
],
[
"ripple",
"ripple#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1611, John Speed, “Henrie the Sixth, King of England, and France, Lord of Ireland: The Three and Fiftieth Monarch of England, His Raigne, Actes, and Issve”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of ye Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. …, Imprinted at London: [By William Hall and John Beale] … and are to be solde by Iohn Sudbury & Georg Humble, in Popes-head alley at ye signe of ye white Horse, →OCLC; republished London: Printed by Iohn Beale, for George Hvmble, and are to be sold in Popes-head Pallace, at the signe of the White Horse, 1614, →OCLC, book 9, paragraph 55, page 665, column 1",
"text": "Yorke hereupon conſults with his ſpeciall friends; [...] how Yorke might get the Crowne of England, and for that cauſe how to ruine or fret out the Duke of Sommerſet; who ſtanding, they were to looke for ſtrong oppoſition.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1835, Louisa Sidney Stanhope, “Conclusion”, in Sydney Beresford. A Tale of the Day. … In Three Volumes, volume III, London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Paternoster-Row, →OCLC, page 274",
"text": "We are all hurrying down the one common stream to the great ocean of eternity: but are we performing our social duties, as citizens of the world, in sculking away into holes and corners, to fret out time and life, because God has judged fit to withdraw the favourite toy he lent us—not making us destitute—but graciously leaving in our keeping, ten thousand toys beside.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In the form fret out: to squander, to waste."
],
"id": "en-fret-en-verb-kcPgF0y3",
"links": [
[
"squander",
"squander"
],
[
"waste",
"waste#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1677, Edward Browne, “A Journey from Vienna in Austria to Hamburg”, in An Account of Several Travels through a Great Part of Germany: In Four Journeys. …, London: Printed for Benj[amin] Tooke, and are to be sold at the sign of the Ship in St. Paul's Church-yard, →OCLC, page 136",
"text": "The Mines are cold where the outward Air comes in; but where not, warm. The greateſt trouble they have is by duſt, which ſpoileth their Lungs and Stomachs, and frets their Skins.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1881, Frederick W[illiam] Robertson, “The Peace of God”, in “The Human Race” and Other Sermons Preached at Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, →OCLC, page 233",
"text": "You may see the surges wear and fret away the basement of the cliff against which they dash themselves, and the mass of broken rock falls into the depth and disappears, and then it is carried away by the tide as it retires.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1886 January 5, Samuel West, “Some Aneurysms of the Heart, Many of the Cases Exhibiting the Effects of Erosion”, in Transactions of the Pathological Society of London, volumes XXXVII (Comprising the Report of the Proceedings for the Session 1885–86), London: Smith, Elder & Co., 15, Waterloo Place, →OCLC, page 159",
"text": "In all the present cases it is the aortic valves that are the source of the mischief. Vegetations, massive, tough, and often calcareous have formed upon these valves, and as they were drive to and fro by the blood-stream have fretted the parts with which they came into contact, and aneurysm at these spots has been the frequent result.",
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{
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{
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{
"_dis1": "15 2 2 1 57 3 13 2 1 4",
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"_dis1": "15 2 2 1 57 3 13 2 1 4",
"code": "de",
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{
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{
"_dis1": "15 2 2 1 57 3 13 2 1 4",
"code": "oc",
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{
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{
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{
"_dis1": "15 2 2 1 57 3 13 2 1 4",
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "to gnaw, consume, eat away",
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"imperfective"
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{
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{
"_dis1": "15 2 2 1 57 3 13 2 1 4",
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"word": "cunzumari"
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{
"_dis1": "15 2 2 1 57 3 13 2 1 4",
"code": "es",
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"word": "consumir"
}
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"_dis1": "2 14 2 0 4 57 5 11 1 3",
"code": "de",
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{
"_dis1": "2 14 2 0 4 57 5 11 1 3",
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"text": "A wristband frets on the edges.",
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"ref": "1893, A[lexander] Fraser-Macdonald, “The North Atlantic Viewed as a Region Traversed by Our Ocean Railways”, in Our Ocean Railways: Or, The Rise, Progress, and Development of Ocean Steam Navigation, London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, page 239",
"text": "This, as Maury remarks, \"suggested the idea that there was no running water nor abrading forces at play upon the bed of the deep sea, and consequently, if ever an electric cord were lodged upon the telegraphic plateau, there it would lie in cold abstraction; without anything to fret, chafe or wear, save alone the tooth of time.\"",
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"ref": "2022 April 25, Kate Conger, “Twitter Employees Search for Answers as Musk Deal Takes Shape”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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"_dis1": "1 15 2 0 2 7 2 68 1 2",
"code": "bg",
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"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
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"_dis1": "1 15 2 0 2 7 2 68 1 2",
"code": "bg",
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{
"_dis1": "1 15 2 0 2 7 2 68 1 2",
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
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{
"_dis1": "1 15 2 0 2 7 2 68 1 2",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
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{
"_dis1": "1 15 2 0 2 7 2 68 1 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
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{
"_dis1": "1 15 2 0 2 7 2 68 1 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "s’inquiéter"
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{
"_dis1": "1 15 2 0 2 7 2 68 1 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "se tracasser"
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{
"_dis1": "1 15 2 0 2 7 2 68 1 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "sorgen"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 15 2 0 2 7 2 68 1 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "besorgen"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 15 2 0 2 7 2 68 1 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "beunruhigen"
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{
"_dis1": "1 15 2 0 2 7 2 68 1 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "nervös machen"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 15 2 0 2 7 2 68 1 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "grämen"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 15 2 0 2 7 2 68 1 2",
"code": "el",
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{
"_dis1": "1 15 2 0 2 7 2 68 1 2",
"code": "io",
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"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "despitar"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 15 2 0 2 7 2 68 1 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "preoccuparsi"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 15 2 0 2 7 2 68 1 2",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "aestuō"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 15 2 0 2 7 2 68 1 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "whakawhererei"
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{
"_dis1": "1 15 2 0 2 7 2 68 1 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "kōingoingo"
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"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "fortvile"
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{
"_dis1": "1 15 2 0 2 7 2 68 1 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bespokóitʹsja",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
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{
"_dis1": "1 15 2 0 2 7 2 68 1 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "volnovátʹsja",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
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{
"_dis1": "1 15 2 0 2 7 2 68 1 2",
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"word": "frait"
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{
"_dis1": "1 15 2 0 2 7 2 68 1 2",
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
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"_dis1": "1 15 2 0 2 7 2 68 1 2",
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"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
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"_dis1": "1 15 2 0 2 7 2 68 1 2",
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"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
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"_dis1": "1 15 2 0 2 7 2 68 1 2",
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"text": "Rancour frets in the malignant breast.",
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"ref": "1789, John Gillies, chapter II, in A View of the Reign of Frederick II. of Prussia; with a Parallel between the Prince and Philip II. of Macedon, Printed for A[ndrew] Strahan, and T[homas] Cadell, in the Strand, →OCLC, page 142",
"text": "Beyond Tabor, the ſmall river Luſchnitze frets over craggy rocks, covered with thick woods, through which you continue your journey for three German miles, [...]",
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"ref": "1815, Walter Scott, “The Lord of the Isles”, in The Poetical Works of Walter Scott: Complete in One Volume, Frankfurt: Printed by and for H. L. Brœnner, published 1826, →OCLC, canto I, page 130",
"text": "And mid-way through the channel met / Conflicting tides that foam and fret, / And high their mingled billows jet, / As spears, that, in the battle set, / Spring upward as they break.",
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{
"ref": "1891 June, William H[enry] Rideing, “Safety on the Atlantic”, in Scribner’s Magazine, volume IX, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons; London: F[rederick] Warne & Co., →OCLC, page 700, column 2",
"text": "The sea frets itself around it [South Stack, Wales, UK] and gurgles in the cavern; ledges and reefs abut on it.",
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"ref": "1856, “The Art of Brewing”, in The Brewer: A Familiar Treatise on the Art of Brewing, with Directions for the Selection of Malt and Hops, &c., &c.: Instructions for Making Cider and British Wines: Also, a Description of the New and Improved Brewing Saccharometer and Slide Rule, with Full Instructions for Their Use, London: William R[obert] Loftus, 6, Beaufoy Terrace, Edgeware Road, →OCLC, page 50",
"text": "It is important to allow beer to flatten, after it has ceased working. This is accomplished by leaving the casks open, when the small floating particles of yeast part with their fixed air, lose their buoyancy, and sink to the bottom. [...] The beer having thus deposited its remaining yeast will not be liable to fret.",
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"_dis1": "43 2 3 1 40 2 3 2 1 3",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to consume, devour",
"word": "verslinden"
},
{
"_dis1": "43 2 3 1 40 2 3 2 1 3",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to consume, devour",
"word": "vreten"
},
{
"_dis1": "43 2 3 1 40 2 3 2 1 3",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to consume, devour",
"word": "dévorer"
},
{
"_dis1": "43 2 3 1 40 2 3 2 1 3",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to consume, devour",
"word": "consumer"
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{
"_dis1": "43 2 3 1 40 2 3 2 1 3",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to consume, devour",
"word": "manger"
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{
"_dis1": "43 2 3 1 40 2 3 2 1 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to consume, devour",
"word": "verschlingen"
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{
"_dis1": "43 2 3 1 40 2 3 2 1 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to consume, devour",
"word": "essen"
},
{
"_dis1": "43 2 3 1 40 2 3 2 1 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to consume, devour",
"word": "fressen"
},
{
"_dis1": "43 2 3 1 40 2 3 2 1 3",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to consume, devour",
"word": "divorare"
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{
"_dis1": "43 2 3 1 40 2 3 2 1 3",
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"ref": "1724, Paul Neile, “Sir Paul Neile’s Discourse of Cider”, in John Evelyn, Silva: Or, A Discourse of Forest-trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty’s Dominions: … In Two Books. …, 5th edition, London: Printed for J. Walthoe [et al.], →OCLC, page 91",
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"ref": "1857, [Margaret Oliphant], “The First Day”, in The Days of My Life. An Autobiography. … In Three Volumes, volume III, London: Hurst and Blackett, publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough Street, →OCLC, page 4",
"text": "The place was a little below Gravesend, quite out of the fret and bustle of the narrower river, and there was not even a steamboat pier to disturb the quiet of this cluster of harmless houses, though they watched upon their beach the passage of great navies down the greatest thoroughfare of England.",
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"ref": "1877, “BEER”, in Encyclopædia of Chemistry Theoretical, Practical, and Analytical as Applied to the Arts and Manufactures, volumes I (Acetic Acid – Gas), Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott & Co., →OCLC, page 315, column 2",
"text": "When the pitching heat is high, and the yeast is of a good quality and in sufficient abundance, the fermentation proceeds so rapidly and with such energy that it becomes ungovernable; some means must therefore be employed to check the heat. For this purpose coils of pipe, through which water circulates, are fitted up in the tun. Unless this is done the whole of the glutinous constituents of the gyle is not removed in the yeast, and the liquor does not cleanse satisfactorily, in consequence of an after fermentation which sets in, which is technically known as the \"fret.\"",
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"ref": "1836 December, “Art. IX. Transactions of the Institute of British Architects. Vol. I. Part I. London, 1836.”, in John Taylor Coleridge, editor, The Quarterly Review, volume LVIII, number CXVI, London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, →OCLC, page 524",
"text": "It was our good fortune last autumn to escape from the feverish excitement and moral tension of this vast metropolis, from the hurry and fret of business, the glut of pleasure, the satiety of delight, the weariness of politics, and the exhausting duties of our critical function, into that favoured corner of our fortunate island, the West of England; [...]",
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"ref": "1980, Renaissance Papers, Durham, N.C.: Southeastern Renaissance Conference, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 50",
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"ref": "1867 April 25, [Colin Mackenzie], “Farriery”, in Mackenzie’s Ten Thousand Receipts, in All the Useful and Domestic Arts; Constituting a Complete and Practical Library, …, new, carefully revised and re-written edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: T. Ellwood Zell & Company, Nos. 17 & 19 South Sixth Street, pages 112–113",
"text": "To cure Gripes in Horses. This disorder goes by different names in different districts of the country; as fret, from the uneasiness attending it; bots, from its being thought to arise from these animals or worms, etc. [...] In speaking of the medicine for gripes, or the flatulent colic sometimes termed fret, Mr. White mentions, domestic remedies may be employed when proper medicines cannot be procured in time.",
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"text": "Then we obſerve the Frets in the Banks of Rivers that are newly made by any great Land-Flood, which uſually are then very clean, to ſee, if happily we can diſcover any metalline Stones in the Sides and Bottoms thereof, together with the Caſt of the Country (i.e. any earth of a different colour from the reſt of the Bank), which is a great help to direct us, which ſide or hill to ſearch into.",
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"ref": "1609, Ammianus Marcellinus, chapter XIV, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Roman Historie, containing Such Acts and Occurrents as Passed under Constantius, Iulianus, Iovianus, Valentinianus, and Valens, Emperours, book IX, London: Printed by Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 322",
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"ref": "1727–1728, Mather Byles et al., edited by Bruce [Ingham] Granger, Proteus Echo (1727–28): A Series of Essays and Poems … that Appeared in the New-England Weekly Journal … (History of Psychology Series; 420), Delmar, N.Y.: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, published 1986, page 75",
"text": "And could we let a Light into their Bosoms, we should see them generally fretted and cankered with this secret and corroding Venom.",
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"ref": "1676, Richard Wiseman, “[A Treatise of Tumors.] Of an Herpes”, in Severall Chirurgical Treatises, London: Printed by E. Flesher and J[ohn] Macock, for R[ichard] Royston bookseller to His Most Sacred Majesty, and B[enjamin] Took at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-yard, →OCLC, page 80",
"text": "A Perſon of Honour, of a full Body abounding with ſharp Humours, was ſeized with an Herpes on his right Leg. [...] [I]t inflamed and ſwelled very much, many Wheals aroſe, and fretted one into another, with great Excoriation.",
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"ref": "1823–1824, A[stley Paston] Cooper, “Lecture LII”, in The Lancet. [...] In Two Volumes, 3rd edition, volume II, London: Knight and Lacey, Paternoster-Row; and G. L. Hutchinson, the Lancet office, Strand, published 1826, →OCLC, pages 100–101",
"text": "We sometimes perform an operation on the under lip [...] in consequence of / Cancer Labii [cancer of the lips], / Which disease generally arises from the use of a pipe, and the manner in which it happens is this:—the adhesive nature of the clay of which the pipe is made, causes it to adhere to the lip; at length the cuticle becomes torn off, and the continued irritation frets the sore into true cancerous disease.",
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"ref": "1882 June, [Margaret Oliphant], “The Ladies Lindores.—Part III.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CXXXI (American edition, volume XCIV), number DCCC, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Co., 41 Barclay Street, →OCLC, chapter VII, page 708, column 2",
"text": "Had Carry preferred mere wealth, weighed by such a master, to the congenial spirit of her former lover? It fretted the young man even to think of such a possibility. And the visitors had fretted him each in some special point.",
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"ref": "1611, John Speed, “Henrie the Sixth, King of England, and France, Lord of Ireland: The Three and Fiftieth Monarch of England, His Raigne, Actes, and Issve”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of ye Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. …, Imprinted at London: [By William Hall and John Beale] … and are to be solde by Iohn Sudbury & Georg Humble, in Popes-head alley at ye signe of ye white Horse, →OCLC; republished London: Printed by Iohn Beale, for George Hvmble, and are to be sold in Popes-head Pallace, at the signe of the White Horse, 1614, →OCLC, book 9, paragraph 55, page 665, column 1",
"text": "Yorke hereupon conſults with his ſpeciall friends; [...] how Yorke might get the Crowne of England, and for that cauſe how to ruine or fret out the Duke of Sommerſet; who ſtanding, they were to looke for ſtrong oppoſition.",
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"ref": "1835, Louisa Sidney Stanhope, “Conclusion”, in Sydney Beresford. A Tale of the Day. … In Three Volumes, volume III, London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Paternoster-Row, →OCLC, page 274",
"text": "We are all hurrying down the one common stream to the great ocean of eternity: but are we performing our social duties, as citizens of the world, in sculking away into holes and corners, to fret out time and life, because God has judged fit to withdraw the favourite toy he lent us—not making us destitute—but graciously leaving in our keeping, ten thousand toys beside.",
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"ref": "1677, Edward Browne, “A Journey from Vienna in Austria to Hamburg”, in An Account of Several Travels through a Great Part of Germany: In Four Journeys. …, London: Printed for Benj[amin] Tooke, and are to be sold at the sign of the Ship in St. Paul's Church-yard, →OCLC, page 136",
"text": "The Mines are cold where the outward Air comes in; but where not, warm. The greateſt trouble they have is by duſt, which ſpoileth their Lungs and Stomachs, and frets their Skins.",
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"ref": "1881, Frederick W[illiam] Robertson, “The Peace of God”, in “The Human Race” and Other Sermons Preached at Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, →OCLC, page 233",
"text": "You may see the surges wear and fret away the basement of the cliff against which they dash themselves, and the mass of broken rock falls into the depth and disappears, and then it is carried away by the tide as it retires.",
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"ref": "1886 January 5, Samuel West, “Some Aneurysms of the Heart, Many of the Cases Exhibiting the Effects of Erosion”, in Transactions of the Pathological Society of London, volumes XXXVII (Comprising the Report of the Proceedings for the Session 1885–86), London: Smith, Elder & Co., 15, Waterloo Place, →OCLC, page 159",
"text": "In all the present cases it is the aortic valves that are the source of the mischief. Vegetations, massive, tough, and often calcareous have formed upon these valves, and as they were drive to and fro by the blood-stream have fretted the parts with which they came into contact, and aneurysm at these spots has been the frequent result.",
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"text": "A wristband frets on the edges.",
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"ref": "1893, A[lexander] Fraser-Macdonald, “The North Atlantic Viewed as a Region Traversed by Our Ocean Railways”, in Our Ocean Railways: Or, The Rise, Progress, and Development of Ocean Steam Navigation, London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, page 239",
"text": "This, as Maury remarks, \"suggested the idea that there was no running water nor abrading forces at play upon the bed of the deep sea, and consequently, if ever an electric cord were lodged upon the telegraphic plateau, there it would lie in cold abstraction; without anything to fret, chafe or wear, save alone the tooth of time.\"",
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"ref": "2022 April 25, Kate Conger, “Twitter Employees Search for Answers as Musk Deal Takes Shape”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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"text": "Rancour frets in the malignant breast.",
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"ref": "1789, John Gillies, chapter II, in A View of the Reign of Frederick II. of Prussia; with a Parallel between the Prince and Philip II. of Macedon, Printed for A[ndrew] Strahan, and T[homas] Cadell, in the Strand, →OCLC, page 142",
"text": "Beyond Tabor, the ſmall river Luſchnitze frets over craggy rocks, covered with thick woods, through which you continue your journey for three German miles, [...]",
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"ref": "1815, Walter Scott, “The Lord of the Isles”, in The Poetical Works of Walter Scott: Complete in One Volume, Frankfurt: Printed by and for H. L. Brœnner, published 1826, →OCLC, canto I, page 130",
"text": "And mid-way through the channel met / Conflicting tides that foam and fret, / And high their mingled billows jet, / As spears, that, in the battle set, / Spring upward as they break.",
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{
"ref": "1891 June, William H[enry] Rideing, “Safety on the Atlantic”, in Scribner’s Magazine, volume IX, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons; London: F[rederick] Warne & Co., →OCLC, page 700, column 2",
"text": "The sea frets itself around it [South Stack, Wales, UK] and gurgles in the cavern; ledges and reefs abut on it.",
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"ref": "1856, “The Art of Brewing”, in The Brewer: A Familiar Treatise on the Art of Brewing, with Directions for the Selection of Malt and Hops, &c., &c.: Instructions for Making Cider and British Wines: Also, a Description of the New and Improved Brewing Saccharometer and Slide Rule, with Full Instructions for Their Use, London: William R[obert] Loftus, 6, Beaufoy Terrace, Edgeware Road, →OCLC, page 50",
"text": "It is important to allow beer to flatten, after it has ceased working. This is accomplished by leaving the casks open, when the small floating particles of yeast part with their fixed air, lose their buoyancy, and sink to the bottom. [...] The beer having thus deposited its remaining yeast will not be liable to fret.",
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to consume, devour",
"word": "consumer"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to consume, devour",
"word": "manger"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to consume, devour",
"word": "verschlingen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to consume, devour",
"word": "essen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to consume, devour",
"word": "fressen"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to consume, devour",
"word": "divorare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to consume, devour",
"word": "consumare"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "to consume, devour",
"word": "freten"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "to consume, devour",
"word": "devouren"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to consume, devour",
"word": "devorir"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to consume, devour",
"word": "manjar"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to consume, devour",
"word": "devorar"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to consume, devour",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "pożerać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to consume, devour",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "pożreć"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pogloščátʹ",
"sense": "to consume, devour",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "поглоща́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "rude",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "požirátʹ",
"sense": "to consume, devour",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "пожира́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "žratʹ",
"sense": "to consume, devour",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"slang"
],
"word": "жрать"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "to consume, devour",
"word": "cunzumari"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "to consume, devour",
"word": "gnutticari"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "to consume, devour",
"word": "cafuḍḍari"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bezpokoja",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "безпокоя"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pritesnjavam",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "притеснявам"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "piekeren"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "zorgen maken"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "verontrusten"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "hermoilla"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "olla huolissaan"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "inquiéter"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "tracasser"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "ronger"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "aufregen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "ärgern"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "belästigen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "beunruhigen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "irritieren"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "stören"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "plagen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "quälen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "verärgern"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "adimonó",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "αδημονώ"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "izgat"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "nyugtalanít"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "despitigar"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "preoccupare"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "whakakunāwheke"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "whakakōingo"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "koroingo"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "freten"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "martwić się"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "niepokoić się"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bespokóitʹ",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "беспоко́ить"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "volnovátʹ",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "волнова́ть"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "priuccupàrisi"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "scantàrisi"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "preocuparse"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to chafe or irritate; to worry",
"word": "comerse la cabeza"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "griza",
"sense": "to gnaw, consume, eat away",
"word": "гриза"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to gnaw, consume, eat away",
"word": "knagen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to gnaw, consume, eat away",
"word": "nakertaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to gnaw, consume, eat away",
"word": "syövyttää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to gnaw, consume, eat away",
"word": "kuluttaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to gnaw, consume, eat away",
"word": "consumer"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to gnaw, consume, eat away",
"word": "ronger"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to gnaw, consume, eat away",
"word": "manger"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to gnaw, consume, eat away",
"word": "aufessen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to gnaw, consume, eat away",
"word": "fressen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to gnaw, consume, eat away",
"word": "auffressen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to gnaw, consume, eat away",
"word": "nagen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to gnaw, consume, eat away",
"word": "einnehmen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to gnaw, consume, eat away",
"word": "anfressen"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to gnaw, consume, eat away",
"word": "consumare"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "to gnaw, consume, eat away",
"word": "freten"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to gnaw, consume, eat away",
"word": "consumir"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to gnaw, consume, eat away",
"word": "manjar"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to gnaw, consume, eat away",
"word": "rosegar"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to gnaw, consume, eat away",
"word": "roganhar"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to gnaw, consume, eat away",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "wygryzać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to gnaw, consume, eat away",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "wyjadać"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pojedátʹ",
"sense": "to gnaw, consume, eat away",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "поеда́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "rude",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "požirátʹ",
"sense": "to gnaw, consume, eat away",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "пожира́ть"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "to gnaw, consume, eat away",
"word": "cunzumari"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to gnaw, consume, eat away",
"word": "consumir"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry",
"word": "schimpfen"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry",
"word": "whakakūnawheke"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bezpokoja se",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "безпокоя се"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pritesnjavam se",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "притеснявам се"
},
{
"code": "kw",
"lang": "Cornish",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "neghi"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "ongerust zijn"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "hermoilla"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "olla huolissaan"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "s’inquiéter"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "se tracasser"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "sorgen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "besorgen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "beunruhigen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "nervös machen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "grämen"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "adimonó",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "αδημονώ"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "despitar"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "preoccuparsi"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "aestuō"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "whakawhererei"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "kōingoingo"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "fortvile"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bespokóitʹsja",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "беспоко́иться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "volnovátʹsja",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "волнова́ться"
},
{
"code": "sco",
"lang": "Scots",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "frait"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "scannalijàrisi"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "scantàrisi"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "priuccupàrisi"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to be anxious, to worry",
"word": "inquietarse"
}
],
"word": "fret"
}
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"English terms inherited from Old English",
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"4": "",
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"name": "inh"
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{
"args": {
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"2": "gem-pro",
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"4": "",
"5": "for-, prefix meaning ‘completely, fully’"
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{
"args": {
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{
"args": {
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"4": "to eat"
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"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
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"4": "",
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"name": "der"
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{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "vreten"
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "fretten",
"3": "",
"4": "to devour, hog, wolf"
},
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"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "freten",
"3": "",
"4": "to eat up"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "fressen",
"3": "",
"4": "to devour, gobble up, guzzle"
},
"expansion": "German fressen (“to devour, gobble up, guzzle”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "got",
"2": "𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽",
"3": "",
"4": "to devour"
},
"expansion": "Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (fraitan, “to devour”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "fräta",
"3": "",
"4": "to eat away, corrode, fret"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "fråse",
"3": "",
"4": "to gorge"
},
"expansion": "Danish fråse (“to gorge”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "xno",
"2": "*freiter"
},
"expansion": "Anglo-Norman *freiter",
"name": "noncog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dialectal"
},
"expansion": "dialectal",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "fretter"
},
"expansion": "French fretter",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "VL.",
"2": "*frictāre"
},
"expansion": "Vulgar Latin *frictāre",
"name": "noncog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "frequentative"
},
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"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "fricāre"
},
"expansion": "Latin fricāre",
"name": "noncog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "fricō",
"3": "",
"4": "to chafe, rub"
},
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"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ine-pro",
"2": "*bʰreyH-",
"3": "",
"4": "to cut"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *bʰreyH- (“to cut”)",
"name": "noncog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "froter"
},
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
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