| 单词 | to fret oneself |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto fret oneself b. figurative. Chiefly of the passions, etc.: To ‘devour’, ‘consume’, torment; cf. eat v. 10c. Also, to fret oneself. Obsolete except in fret the heart, in which use this sense is now hardly distinguishable from 8. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > cause anguish to or torment [verb (transitive)] quelmeOE eatc1000 martyrOE fretc1175 woundc1175 to-fret?c1225 gnawc1230 to-traya1250 torment1297 renda1333 anguish1340 grindc1350 wringc1374 debreakc1384 ofpinec1390 rivea1400 urn1488 reboil1528 whip1530 cruciate1532 pinch1548 spur-galla1555 agonize1570 rack1576 cut1582 excruciate1590 scorchc1595 discruciate1596 butcher1597 split1597 torture1598 lacerate1600 harrow1603 hell1614 to eat upa1616 arrow1628 martyrize1652 percruciate1656 tear1666 crucify1702 flay1782 wrench1798 kill1800 to cut up1843 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 16133 Hat lufe towarrd godess hus Me freteþþ att min herrte. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 98 Full of..wrathfull thought He fret him selven all to nought. 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) iv. i. 101 a This Manlius was fret in his corage To greater worships sodainly to ascende. c1450 How Goode Wif thaught Doughter 80 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 185 Envyouse herte hym selfe fretithe, my dere childe. a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) iv. sig. Divv Dido doth burne with loue, rage fretes her boones. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. (1609) ix. xiv. 322 Their hearts alreadie fretted and cankered at the very roote, for the last disgrace received. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 260. ⁋1 A crafty Constitution, and an uneasy Mind is fretted with vexatious Passions. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. xliii. 222 It did teaze me; insomuch that my very heart was fretted. 1850 J. G. Saxe Poems 27 The very sigh That her stately bosom was fretting. 1856 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 10 May in Eng. Notebks. (1997) II. iv. 26 So many curiosities drive one crazy, and fret one's heart to death. to fret oneself 8. transitive. To chafe, irritate. Chiefly with regard to the mind: To annoy, distress, vex, worry. Also, to fret oneself; and to bring into or to (a specified condition) by worrying. Cf. fret v.4 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > worry > [verb (reflexive)] fretc1290 overfret1445 solicita1450 turmoil?1529 moila1560 to fret one's gizzard1755 to worry (oneself), be worried, sick1952 the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > be annoyed or vexed by [verb (transitive)] > annoy or vex gremec893 dretchc900 awhenec1000 teenOE fretc1290 annoyc1300 atrayc1320 encumberc1330 diseasec1340 grindc1350 distemperc1386 offenda1387 arra1400 avexa1400 derea1400 miscomforta1400 angerc1400 engrievec1400 vex1418 molesta1425 entrouble?1435 destroublea1450 poina1450 rubc1450 to wring (a person) on the mailsc1450 disprofit1483 agrea1492 trouble1515 grig1553 mis-set?1553 nip?1553 grate1555 gripe1559 spitec1563 fike?1572 gall1573 corsie1574 corrosive1581 touch1581 disaccommodate1586 macerate1588 perplex1590 thorn1592 exulcerate1593 plague1595 incommode1598 affret1600 brier1601 to gall or tread on (one's) kibes1603 discommodate1606 incommodate1611 to grate on or upon1631 disincommodate1635 shog1636 ulcerate1647 incommodiate1650 to put (a person) out of his (her, etc.) way1653 discommodiate1654 discommode1657 ruffle1659 regrate1661 disoblige1668 torment1718 pesta1729 chagrin1734 pingle1740 bothera1745 potter1747 wherrit1762 to tweak the nose of1784 to play up1803 tout1808 rasp1810 outrage1818 worrit1818 werrit1825 buggerlug1850 taigle1865 get1867 to give a person the pip1881 to get across ——1888 nark1888 eat1893 to twist the tail1895 dudgeon1906 to tweak the tail of1909 sore1929 to put up1930 wouldn't it rip you!1941 sheg1943 to dick around1944 cheese1946 to pee off1946 to honk off1970 to fuck off1973 to tweak (a person's or thing's) tail1977 to tweak (a person's or thing's) nose1983 to wind up1984 to dick about1996 to-teen- the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > worry > worry about [verb (transitive)] > cause worry to busyeOE fretc1290 exercise1531 to lead, rarely give (a person) a dancea1545 pingle1740 potter1763 fidget1785 worrit1818 worry1822 bite1909 disquieten1921 to stress out1983 c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 187/95 So þat þe salt scholde is woundene frete. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xxxvi[i]. 1 Frett not thy self at the vngodly. 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 2v Buckles and agglettes at vnwares, shall race hys bowe, a thinge..perilous for freatynge. 1594 S. Forman Autobiogr. & Diary (1849) 26 She cam not to me, and I was marvailously freted with yt. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iv. i. 76 You may as well forbid the mountaine of Pines to wag their high tops..when they are fretten [1623 fretted] with the gusts of heauen. View more context for this quotation 1658 T. Bromhall Treat. Specters i. 52 They that stood by mocked him, and he being fretted went away. 1693 W. Freke Sel. Ess. 265 Arrows..fret Horse doubly more than Guns can. 1709 R. Steele & J. Addison Tatler No. 160. ⁋9 I should have fretted my self to Death at this Promise of a Second Visit. 1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man i. 2 I have tried to fret him myself. 1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. xi. 263 The busy hand Of Consolation, fretting the sore wound. 1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 207 The horses were urged and checked until they were fretted into a foam. a1854 Ld. Cockburn Memorials (1856) iv. 222 They were fretted into something like contempt by the rejection of a claim. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. iv. 68 The long-lost mother..once fretted our young souls with her anxious humours. 1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xi. 91 The bishop..fretted himself in his chair, moving about with little movements. < as lemmas |
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