Definition of "fretted" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of fret. (verb)
• (of a musical instrument) Having frets. (adjective)
• Decorated with fretwork (adjective)

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• "At first, whenever this happened, his wife fretted extremely -- _fretted_ is the right word, for it was more a fitful chafing than a positive grief."
• ""It isn't my home," he replied, as if the word fretted him."
• "I "fretted" -- as the servants expressed it -- to such an extent as to affect my health; and I fancy it was because my father's attention was called to the fact that I was fast fading after the mother and sister whose death (and my own loneliness) I bewailed, that he roused himself from his own grief to comfort mine."