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fret

a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch

an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief); "there was a simple fret at the top of the walls"

agitation resulting from active worry; "don't get in a stew"; "he's in a sweat about exams"

wear away or erode

decorate with an interlaced design

carve a pattern into

be agitated or irritated; "don't fret over these small details"

cause annoyance in

provide (a musical instrument) with frets; "fret a guitar"

Synonyms:

• ablate,
• abrade,
• abrase,
• ache,
• achievement,
• aching,
• afflict,
• aggravate,
• agitate,
• agonize,
• ail,
• air a grievance,
• alerion,
• angina,
• animal charge,
• annoy,
• annulet,
• arabesque,
• argent,
• armorial bearings,
• armory,
• arms,
• arouse,
• azure,
• backache,
• bandeau,
• bar,
• bar sinister,
• bark,
• basketry,
• basketwork,
• baton,
• be concerned,
• be livid,
• be pissed,
• bearings,
• beat,
• beat up,
• beef,
• bellyache,
• bend,
• bend sinister,
• beset,
• billet,
• bitch,
• bite,
• blazon,
• blazonry,
• bleed,
• blemish,
• bloody,
• bluster,
• boil,
• bordure,
• bother,
• break,
• bristle,
• broad arrow,
• brood,
• brood over,
• browned off,
• bug,
• burn,
• burn to,
• cadency mark,
• cancellation,
• canton,
• carp at,
• carry on,
• cephalalgia,
• chafe,
• chaplet,
• charge,
• check,
• chevron,
• chief,
• chip,
• churn,
• churn up,
• clamor,
• claw,
• coat of arms,
• cockatrice,
• cockle,
• colic,
• collywobbles,
• complain,
• concern,
• convulse,
• coronet,
• crab,
• crack,
• craze,
• crescent,
• crest,
• croak,
• cross,
• cross moline,
• cross-hatching,
• crossing-out,
• crown,
• crucify,
• cut,
• device,
• difference,
• differencing,
• dimple,
• disarrange,
• discompose,
• disquiet,
• distress,
• disturb,
• dither,
• dog,
• dudgeon,
• eagle,
• earache,
• embitter,
• embitterment,
• erase,
• ermine,
• ermines,
• erminites,
• erminois,
• erode,
• escutcheon,
• exacerbate,
• exacerbation,
• exasperate,
• excite,
• excoriate,
• excruciate,
• exercise,
• falcon,
• ferment,
• fess,
• fess point,
• fester,
• field,
• file,
• filigree,
• flanch,
• flap,
• fleur-de-lis,
• flurry,
• fluster,
• flusteration,
• flustration,
• flutter,
• foofaraw,
• fracture,
• fray,
• frazzle,
• fret and fume,
• fret at,
• fretwork,
• fume,
• fur,
• fusil,
• fuss,
• fuss at,
• gall,
• garland,
• gash,
• get excited,
• give pain,
• gnaw,
• gnaw away,
• gnawing,
• go on,
• grate,
• grate on,
• grating,
• gravel,
• graze,
• grid,
• gridiron,
• grieve,
• griffin,
• grille,
• grillwork,
• grind,
• gripe,
• gripes,
• grit,
• groan,
• grouch,
• grouse,
• growl,
• grumble,
• grump,
• grunt,
• gules,
• gut-ache,
• gyron,
• hachure,
• harass,
• hardly wait,
• harrow,
• harry,
• hassle,
• hasten,
• hatching,
• hatchment,
• haunt,
• have a conniption,
• headache,
• heartburn,
• helmet,
• hemicrania,
• henpeck,
• heraldic device,
• high dudgeon,
• holler,
• honor point,
• hound,
• howl,
• huff,
• hurt,
• impalement,
• impaling,
• incense,
• incise,
• inescutcheon,
• inflame,
• inflict pain,
• injure,
• interlacement,
• intertexture,
• intertwinement,
• irk,
• irritant,
• irritate,
• irritation,
• itch to,
• jump the gun,
• kick,
• kill by inches,
• label,
• lace,
• lacerate,
• lacery,
• lacework,
• lacing,
• lather,
• lattice,
• latticework,
• lion,
• lodge a complaint,
• lozenge,
• maim,
• make mincemeat of,
• mantling,
• marshaling,
• martlet,
• martyr,
• martyrize,
• mascle,
• maul,
• megrim,
• mesh,
• meshes,
• meshwork,
• metal,
• miff,
• migraine,
• mope,
• motto,
• mourn,
• mullet,
• murmur,
• mutilate,
• mutter,
• nag,
• net,
• netting,
• nettle,
• network,
• nibble at,
• niggle,
• nip,
• nombril point,
• octofoil,
• odontalgia,
• or,
• ordinary,
• orle,
• otalgia,
• paddle,
• pain,
• pale,
• paly,
• pean,
• peck at,
• peeve,
• persecute,
• perturb,
• perturbate,
• pester,
• pet,
• pheon,
• pick at,
• pick on,
• pierce,
• pinch,
• pine,
• pine away,
• pique,
• pissed off,
• plague,
• plexure,
• plexus,
• pother,
• prick,
• prolong the agony,
• provocation,
• provoke,
• pucker,
• puncture,
• purpure,
• put to torture,
• pyrosis,
• quarter,
• quartering,
• rack,
• raddle,
• rage,
• raise Cain,
• raise a howl,
• raise hell,
• raise the devil,
• raise the roof,
• rankle,
• rant,
• rant and rave,
• rasp,
• rave,
• raze,
• register a complaint,
• rend,
• reticle,
• reticulation,
• reticule,
• reticulum,
• riddle,
• riffle,
• rile,
• rip,
• ripple,
• roil,
• rose,
• roughen,
• rub,
• rub away,
• rub off,
• rub out,
• ruffle,
• rumple,
• run,
• rupture,
• sable,
• saltire,
• savage,
• scald,
• scorch,
• scotch,
• scour,
• scrape,
• scratch,
• screen,
• screening,
• scrub,
• scuff,
• scutcheon,
• seethe,
• set on edge,
• set up,
• shake,
• shake up,
• shield,
• sick headache,
• sieve,
• simmer,
• sizzle,
• skin,
• slash,
• slit,
• smoke,
• smolder,
• sorrow,
• splitting headache,
• sprain,
• spread eagle,
• squawk,
• squirm,
• stab,
• stew,
• stick,
• sting,
• stir,
• stir the blood,
• stir up,
• stomachache,
• storm,
• strain,
• subordinary,
• sulk,
• sweat,
• sweat and stew,
• sweat it out,
• swirl,
• swivet,
• take on,
• tatter,
• tear,
• tenne,
• texture,
• throbbing pain,
• throw a fit,
• tiff,
• tincture,
• tissue,
• tizzy,
• toothache,
• torment,
• torse,
• torture,
• tracery,
• traumatize,
• trellis,
• trelliswork,
• tweak,
• twist,
• twitter,
• twitteration,
• unicorn,
• upset,
• vair,
• vert,
• vex,
• wait impatiently,
• wattle,
• wear,
• wear away,
• wear down,
• wear off,
• wear out,
• wear ragged,
• weather,
• weave,
• weaving,
• web,
• webbing,
• webwork,
• weft,
• whine,
• whip,
• whip up,
• whisk,
• wicker,
• wickerwork,
• work up,
• worry,
• wound,
• wreath,
• wrench,
• wring,
• yale,
• yap,
• yap at,
• yelp