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Frazzle   /frˈæzəl/   Listen
Frazzle

verb
(past & past part. frazzled; pres. part. frazzling)
1.
Wear away by rubbing.  Synonym: fray.
2.
Exhaust physically or emotionally.





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"Frazzle" Quotes from Famous Books



... this feat of strength and dexterity, and when you do, it brings your heart almost out of your body and has an exhibition of tent-pegging simply beaten to a frazzle. ...
— The Hawk of Egypt • Joan Conquest
... on Ord's extreme right in support of the cavalry already there. The cavalry in the centre had been but a curtain. Gordon halted and sent word of the situation to his chief, notifying him that further effort was hopeless, and would cause a useless sacrifice; that he had "fought his troops to a frazzle."(24) ...
— Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 • Joseph Warren Keifer
... already, Herb!" he exclaimed. "Don't you pay any attention to what he says, Pudding. We're just going to lick the whole bunch to a frazzle, and that's easy. Now, Jack, suppose you tell us what's on your mind? How are we going to have lots of trouble in the last half, ...
— Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise - or, The Dash for Dixie • Louis Arundel
... "maybe that is so, but folks might get worn all to a frazzle by the flying-out ones before the long run. I'd rather take my chances with a woman like Eudora. She always seems just so, just as calm and sweet. When the Ames's barn, that was next to hers, burned down and the wind was her way, she just walked in and out of her house, carrying the things she valued ...
— The Yates Pride • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... the Time.' He will soon identify a restless ribbon of red lettering, red hot and rebellious, as the saying, 'Give me liberty or give me death.' He will fail to identify it as the equally famous saying, 'Skyoline Has Gout Beaten to a Frazzle.' Therefore it was that I desired the peasant to walk down that grove of fiery trees, under all that golden foliage, and fruits like monstrous jewels, as innocent as Adam before the Fall. He would ...
— What I Saw in America • G. K. Chesterton


Words linked to "Frazzle" :   colloquialism, wear out, wear, fall apart, bust, tucker, beat, exhaustion, fray, exhaust, wash up, tucker out, break


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