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Frazzle   Listen
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Frazzle  v. t.  (past & past part. frazzled; pres. part. frazzling)  To fray; to wear or pull into tatters or tag ends; to tatter; used literally and figuratively. (Prov. Eng. & U. S.) "Her hair was of a reddish gray color, and its frazzled and tangled condition suggested that the woman had recently passed through a period of extreme excitement."






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"Frazzle" Quotes from Famous Books



... William, less jess stop right yer! I 'clare, I'se jess wore to a plum frazzle, a-travelin' an' a-travelin'! Ef we gwine settle, why, less settle, thass ...
— The Girl at the Halfway House • Emerson Hough

... not apply to the heroes like Ebert, Thorpe, Brewer, Kennedy, Warren, and a few others, who fearlessly exposed their lives upon the very firing-line. These men are the very "salt of the earth." The escape of even a "frazzle" of the 5th Corps was due to their superhuman energy and exertions. They did much to redeem the good name of their corps and ...
— The Gatlings at Santiago • John H. Parker



Words linked to "Frazzle" :   exhaust, break, colloquialism, wear, bust, fall apart, tucker out



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