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单词 to a frazzle
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to a frazzle
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.
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