Definitions
wear away or erode
Word origin
From 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”)).
Used in a sentence
“Their hearts alreadie fretted and cankered at the very roote, for the last disgrace received.”
“And could we let a Light into their Bosoms, we should see them generally fretted and cankered with this secret and corroding Venom.”
“to fret the surface of water”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Worry anxiously”4 letters
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