frazzlen.
/ˈfrazl/, U.S. /ˈfræz(ə)l/ The state of being frazzled or worn out; esp. in phr. (originally U.S.) to a frazzle in figurative expressions denoting complete exhaustion or extinction.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adverb]
wearily1481
out of breath1565
faintingly1576
languishingly1579
tiredly1659
weariedly1681
pantingly1744
exhaustedly1835
droopingly1852
languorously1858
to a frazzle1865
leadenly1879
jadedly1885
wearifully1888
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > wear resulting from use
slite1614
wear and tear1666
worn-outness1844
frazzle1865
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > deteriorated in condition [phrase] > worn > so as to wear out
to a frazzle1865
1865 Gordon in W. C. Church Ulysses Grant (1897) 318 Tell General Lee, I have fought my corps to a frazzle.
1872 Congr. Globe 30 May App. 578/2 They..got great big long brushes..and they whipped them all into frassels. There are welts on me now.
1880 J. C. Harris Uncle Remus (1881) xi Brer Fox dun know Brer Rabbit uv ole, en he know dat sorter game done wo' ter a frazzle.
1894 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 2 Jan. Two years ago his nerves were worn to a frazzle over an attempt made to levy a tax.
1905 Washington Star 24 Nov. 22 The Becham machine whipped Blackburn to a frazzle, giving him the first real defeat he had ever experienced.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 3 Nov. 7/3 Mr. Roosevelt, when asked for his opinion on the result, said, ‘We have got them beaten to a “frazzle”.’
1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 29 July 4/4 As a briber and corrupter, Mr. Brewster..has everyone else ‘beat to a frazzle’.
1921 C. E. Mulford Bar-20 Three viii. 101 I'm aiming to ride him [sc. his horse] to a frazzle.
1927 Daily Express 20 June 3/4 They run motor races on their sea wall at Lowestoft. They..have Canute beaten to a frazzle.
1935 T. E. Lawrence Let. 15 Feb. (1938) 856 Some of those lovely worm-driven water hose clips... They beat [name omitted] clips to a frazzle.
1937 Daily Herald 3 Feb. 15/6 Listens with such inscrutability that he's got the Chinese licked to a frazzle.
1966 C. Bermant Diary of Old Man 111 There he goes again, coughing himself to a frazzle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
frazzlev.
/ˈfrazl/, U.S. /ˈfræz(ə)l/ slang or colloquial (originally dialect).
transitive. To fray, wear out, tear to rags or ribbons. literal and figurative. Also intransitive.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > weary or exhaust [verb (transitive)]
wearyc897
tirea1000
travailc1300
forwearya1325
taryc1375
tarc1440
matec1450
break1483
labour1496
overwearya1500
wear?1507
to wear out, forth1525
fatigate1535
stress1540
overtire1558
forwaste1563
to tire out1563
overwear1578
spend1582
out-tire1596
outwear1596
outweary1596
overspend1596
to toil out1596
attediate1603
bejade1620
lassate1623
harassa1626
overtask1628
tax1672
hag1674
trash1685
hatter1687
overtax1692
fatigue1693
to knock up1740
tire to death1740
overfatigue1741
fag1774
outdo1776
to do over1789
to use up1790
jade1798
overdo1817
frazzlea1825
worry1828
to sew up1837
to wear to death1840
to take it (also a lot, too much, etc.) out of (a person)1847
gruel1850
to stump up1853
exhaust1860
finish1864
peter1869
knacker1886
grind1887
tew1893
crease1925
poop1931
raddle1951
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > cause bad condition in [verb (transitive)] > cause to waste away > wear away or down > wear out
forweara1240
perusec1475
outweara1542
overwear1591
to work out1609
frazzlea1825
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Frazle, to unravel or rend cloth. Frazlings, threads of cloth, torn or unravelled.
1896 J. C. Harris Sister Jane 344 He's the genuine article, guaranteed not to rip in the seams or frazzle at the sleeves.
1912 J. London Son of Sun viii. 285 Loose ends of rope stood out stiffly horizontal, and, when a whipping gave, the loose end frazzled and blew away.
Derivatives
ˈfrazzled adj. (also frazzled out)
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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > worn out
perusedc1475
withered1488
laboured1535
outworn1597
worn-out1612
effete1662
frazzled1872
jacked-up1874
crocky1906
bummed1907
rim-racked1916
shot1933
beaten-up1941
beat-up1946
clapped1946
1872 Congress. Globe 30 May App. 577/3 The ends of the switches were all frazzled.
1893 Amer. Missionary (N.Y.) Dec. 418 One's garments get frazzled in the grass; one's mind and body and spiritual sense sometimes become frazzled, torn to pieces, good-for-nothing.
1895 Nebraska State Jrnl. 23 June 3/1 Everyone believed that Thomas would..plant the frazzled banner of the distillers in its place.
1912 J. H. Moore Ethics & Educ. 34 Many a frazzled-out member of society owes his failure in life to no greater misdemeanour than the mere failure to make connection with his calling.
1912 Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 194/1 For bed a mud kang with a frazzled mat on it.
1927 J. Devanny Old Savage 43 His fight had left him ‘frazzled’, as he expressed it.
1960 Guardian 6 Jan. 1/7 The insistence of frazzled parents that merry~making and goodwill to men have got to stop somewhere.
ˈfrazzlings n. ravellings.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > [noun] > unravelled bits
frazzlingsa1825
fraying1856
a1825 [see main sense].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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