All fret synonyms
fret
F f verb fret
- chafe β If your skin chafes or is chafed by something, it becomes sore as a result of something rubbing against it.
- brood β A brood is a group of baby birds that were born at the same time to the same mother.
- fuss β an excessive display of anxious attention or activity; needless or useless bustle: They made a fuss over the new baby.
- agonize β If you agonize over something, you feel very anxious about it and spend a long time thinking about it.
- fume β of food, cured or flavored by exposure to smoke; smoked.
- carp β A carp is a kind of fish that lives in lakes and rivers.
- grieve β to feel grief or great sorrow: She has grieved over his death for nearly three years.
- bother β If you do not bother to do something or if you do not bother with it, you do not do it, consider it, or use it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy.
- disturb β to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
- nag β to annoy by persistent faultfinding, complaints, or demands.
- pother β commotion; uproar.
- affront β If something affronts you, you feel insulted and hurt because of it.
- chagrin β Chagrin is a feeling of disappointment, upset, or annoyance, perhaps because of your own failure.
- torment β to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
- stew β to cook (food) by simmering or slow boiling.
- mope β to be sunk in dejection or listless apathy; sulk; brood.
- anguish β Anguish is great mental suffering or physical pain.
- bleed β When you bleed, you lose blood from your body as a result of injury or illness.
- ruffle β to beat (a drum) in this manner.
- distress β great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
- agitate β If people agitate for something, they protest or take part in political activity in order to get it.
- displease β to incur the dissatisfaction, dislike, or disapproval of; offend; annoy: His reply displeased the judge.
- peeve β to render peevish; annoy.
- harass β to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
- vex β to irritate; annoy; provoke: His noisy neighbors often vexed him.
- goad β a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
- nettle β any plant of the genus Urtica, covered with stinging hairs. Compare nettle family.
- pique β a fabric of cotton, spun rayon, or silk, woven lengthwise with raised cords.
- rile β to irritate or vex.
- irk β to irritate, annoy, or exasperate: It irked him to wait in line.
- irritate β to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
- gall β (Pizi) 1840?β94, leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux: a major chief in the battle of Little Bighorn.
- trouble β to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
- provoke β to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
- abrade β To abrade something means to scrape or wear down its surface by rubbing it.
- ripple β (of a liquid surface) to form small waves or undulations, as water agitated by a breeze.
- corrode β If metal or stone corrodes, or is corroded, it is gradually destroyed by a chemical or by rust.
- riffle β a rapid, as in a stream.
- fray β a raveled or worn part, as in cloth: frays at the toes of well-worn sneakers.
- take on β to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- eat one's heart out β Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- worry β to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
- agonise β to suffer extreme pain or anguish; be in agony.
- upset β to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
- hassle β a disorderly dispute.
- erode β (of wind, water, or other natural agents) Gradually wear away (soil, rock, or land).
- excoriate β Censure or criticize severely.