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    1. With this, our view is properly centered to not fret with the things of this life, and to endure patiently until the end when we shall receive reward


    2. “Don’t fret, he’s occupied at the moment and asked that you wait in this room until he’s finished


    3. Do not fret if you cannot experience all senses at once


    4. Perhaps, in most cases we do not witness instant karma, so we fret and assume that life is unjust


    5. Rosie was tearful but wished me luck turning away to hide her tears I said to her that it could be quite awhile before I was recalled to the Battalion so she shouldn’t fret too much


    6. "Don't fret over


    7. I began to fret as I clung to the phone


    8. “Don’t fret, my friend,” Gene responded, watching as Brian unwrapped the cash and piled it into stacks of hundreds, “everything will work out


    9. Don’t fret about it


    10. “Don’t fret about it

    11. 7 Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who


    12. Fret not yourself because of evil men, neither be envious of the wicked, because there shall be no


    13. pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry, and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and


    14. not fret over this aspect of our struggle, because it is an unavoidable reality of life


    15. “Suzy, Suzy, my love, you shouldn’t fret anymore


    16. He raised a had for them not to fret,


    17. “Oh don’t fret, I’m not that cold


    18. 55 And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is washed: and, note, if the plague have not changed his colour, and the plague be not spread; it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire; it is fret inward, whether it be bore within or without


    19. Psa 37:7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass


    20. the plague be not spread; it is unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire; it is fret inward, whether it be bare within or without

    21. Have them box-up their weapons so they won't have to fret about a casual traffic stop


    22. do I have to fret with self-restraint and fear?


    23. The worrying things that caused our souls to fret;


    24. "Don't fret! We'll catch the old gillnetter," Garnet Reed cried optimistically, peering into rain that smothered a dark grey dawn


    25. fret about it, but I wish I could at least have left Angela better prepared


    26. I wouldn’t fret over, my dear


    27. Don't fret; you are just as pretty as any of those three, but you are now unavailable


    28. Curiously, he does not fret at all about economic fluctuations or Federal Reserve actions, and appears to have unbridled faith in


    29. will be at the 5th fret and 8th fret on the 6th string


    30. first note would be located at the 8th fret, 6th string at the point where the

    31. of the blue note (15th fret, 3rd string)


    32. It was in our nature, then, to fret over what this would do to Molly


    33. on in silence as the frustrated father continued to fret over the fate of his family


    34. (c) Let us learn not to be surprised or fret when trials come


    35. Don"t you fret about that,” his father said from


    36. that he had nothing to fret


    37. he began to fret


    38. But immediately he reverted to form and began to fret


    39. But he immediately reverted to form and began to fret


    40. Furthermore, there is nothing to fret about

    41. It was hard to fret over incidental things like breaking into a lighthouse when faced with such stunning, natural beauty


    42. faith rather than fret in fear, if we can learn to believe


    43. Had he found out about the gold, or did he simply wish to ask her why she had fled the station and cracked his heart? The coins were not his to fret over just the same and she was done with him


    44. To watch her like that soothed him gradually quite out of the fever and fret of the day


    45. The memory of the fret and hot irritation of the day was wiped out as though it had never been by that other memory of her sweet apology on the steps of the crypt


    46. It’s not the time for me to fret and analyze and be nervous


    47. "We'll conquer this demon, don't fret, my dear


    48. "Oh Celia, don't fret


    49. "Don't fret," the sheriff assured him


    50. I fret about whether I should stop by the bookstore and buy an extra battery for the calculator just in case, on my way to the exam





































    1. The foolishness of man perverts his way, and his heart frets against the


    2. and move his fingers as if he was playing the frets of an invisible guitar


    3. The first time I heard Terry’s rendering of Macbeth’s misery, cynicism and poignant insight into the folly of life… and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty deaths…life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing! it moved me to tears


    4. The death of himself is now recognize, he has ceased from all his labors, there is no more strife within him, an empty vessel, the things he knew in life, the knowledge, the worrying, the fears and frets, and so on are now left far behind him


    5. You experiment with your fingers on the frets


    6. It was tuned to the D scale, which is a nice way to start learning the guitar because no matter how you move your fingers along the frets while strumming you never get a clashing chord


    7. “…I understand your frets sir but I am not ready for this


    8. Now he sits and he frets


    9. “She frets about


    10. She frets over a zit

    11. All stringed instruments with frets use metal bars as buffers to separate one particular wavelength from the rest of the wavelengths on the string


    12. He began the guitar solo and closed his eyes as his fingers ran up and down the frets as though they were possessed


    13. When eleven o'clock came, Don Quixote found a guitar in his chamber; he tried it, opened the window, and perceived that some persons were walking in the garden; and having passed his fingers over the frets of the guitar and tuned it as well as he could, he spat and cleared his chest, and then with a voice a little hoarse but full-toned, he sang the following ballad, which he had himself that day composed:


    14. Morel it was one of those still moments when the small frets vanish, and the beauty of things stands out, and she had the peace and the strength to see herself


    15. The pettishness that might be caressed into fondness, had yielded to a listless apathy; there was less of the peevish temper of a child which frets and teases on purpose to be soothed, and more of the self-absorbed moroseness of a confirmed invalid, repelling consolation, and ready to regard the good-humoured mirth of others as an insult


    16. I found her sitting on an old canopy bed, looking down at her fingers on the frets of a green electric guitar


    17. Poor dear, I've no doubt it frets her to be kept in the dark, and it may make her doubly anxious about me and the others


    18. “My mother frets and frets there in Goaves, lest I go mad and run to her


    19. This is not one of those holiday resolutions, which frets and fumes its hour upon the stage and is forgotten forever


    20. That Babylonian influence was not active, is seen by the utter absence of any geometrical ornament; neither rosettes or stars, frets or circles, nor any other such elements are seen, and perhaps no such large piece of work exists so clear of all but natural forms

    1. This morning, as soon as she stepped into my office with some new texts in hand, the screen suddenly went black with a ''system error'', without my pressing a single key! What the heck, has she got a magnet or something? We called for a technician, as usual, but in the meanwhile the fair lady fumed and fretted at me and started shouting about my incompetence


    2. He fretted intensely over what to tell Ava about his visitor


    3. As he hurried along Darkburst fretted about his mother and the danger she was in


    4. "Where on earth do you suppose he could have got to?" She fretted, picking at the material on her sleeve in agitation


    5. Freddy fretted and some of his hair started to fall out


    6. “Sven, are you sure that was wise?” He fretted


    7. the days of your youth, but has fretted me in all these things; see, therefore I also will recompense your way on your head, says the


    8. Harry had not seen Suzy for over a week, he had fretted constantly about her own mental state but he needn’t have worried as she was looking as glamorous as ever in a dark blue business suit she had carefully selected for the occasion


    9. Moshe, impatiently awaiting the time of departure, fretted over the lack of immediate response from the townsmen, local farmers, and herdsmen


    10. Will they work? Moshe fretted

    11. Leah fretted her concern and the old woman grumbled her displeasure


    12. Leah fretted her concern and the old woman


    13. So still he wondered, indeed fretted, about what the ravens might have done to him


    14. Tobie fretted over how well he'd made the repair, claiming his anatomy courses were far in the past


    15. For the rest of the month she fretted, worried that


    16. As I fretted over my dilemma I drew my associates together that are the top of their game in drivability and diagnostics


    17. Lord Dagon fretted as he sat on his coral Dais


    18. He worried about the final outcome, he fretted about reaching Grand Cayman getting Jones’ money then Jones wiping them both out


    19. In the Citadel, in a chamber with a domed ceiling of carven jet, and the fretted arches of doorways glimmering with strange dark jewels, a strange conclave came to pass


    20. At the wizard's gesture, the blacks laid hold of their prisoner and marched him behind Tsotha, who led the way out of the chamber through an arched doorway into a winding corridor, whose floor was of many-hued mosaics, whose walls were inlaid with gold tissue and silver chasing, and from whose fretted arched ceiling swung golden censers, filling the corridor with dreamy perfumed clouds

    21. Greg fretted over their defense plan and mentally reexamined every detail


    22. Dorothy fretted about the house, wringing her hands and crying


    23. As the ranks filled in, Wren and Rachel fretted over the relative inexperience of Wren’s crews, but other than training, there was little they could do


    24. Encased in a polka dot bathrobe she fretted as she spied the policeman


    25. We will have fretted ourselves for nothing


    26. She fretted about what Lyons had told them


    27. That stupid Venus of mine, she fretted


    28. She fretted, I hope he's not headed for a broken heart


    29. binoculars as she fretted


    30. this o’erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with

    31. Did she mean the cult? Adele fretted for weeks, paranoid of every face, every person she met on sidewalks, crossing intersections


    32. Of all professions, if I had liberty of choice, I would choose to be a gardener, and if nobody would have me in that capacity I would like to be a goose-girl, and sit in the greenest of fields minding those delightfully plump, placid geese, whiter and more leisurely than the clouds on a calm summer morning, their very waddle in its lazy deliberation soothing and salutary to a fretted spirit that has been too long on the stretch


    33. Jacob wanted to avoid that if at all possible, but how best to go about it? Jacob tapped the side of his cheek with his index finger and fretted


    34. Stephanie fretted, “I’ve never had to get out of the car without Mitch being around,” referring to the tire-biting dogs


    35. She had no difficulty, he observed, himself infinitely fretted by this constant closeness to her, in being just a frank companion


    36. They slept wherever they could find shelter, usually in farm barns and Olin fretted over the fact that he did not yet have a solution for that undesirable situation


    37. Her gloom had deepened when Mark had not shown up at Casper’s, despite all her other faults, Lucy was a compassionate creature and she fretted about the situation


    38. He fidgeted and fretted, but Nicolette forbade him the luxury of time


    39. (a-c-b) can be demonstrated on any fretted musical instrument


    40. The more she fretted and struggled to set her free, the firmer became her fetters

    41. A few months went by before the first soil samples arrived in small, numbered plastic bags and at the beginning I fretted and wondered how to go about the analysis


    42. Heads of social organizations, institutions, the concept of a Supreme head-being: God, the making of bread by cutting off the heads of grain, the head of a bed, the head of a burning cigar or cigarette: knocked of as ashes: getting ‘ahead’, the concept of progress as the most important thing in life, competition: getting ahead of your competition, the concept of competitive elimination: ‘heads will fall’, ‘if you are not up to snuff’, snuff: sneezing your head off by taking a pinch of snuff to clear your head, giving ‘head’ sexually, warheads, bombs, firearms, bullets, artillery: any weapon that shoots something: slingshots, arrows, spears, rocks, the heading of a page, a header in grammar, the heading on a page, the heading on a sentence, the heading on a paragraph, somersaults, head-over-heels, crowns, the crowns of Corinthian pillars, pillars do not have heads: all pillars are decapitated, all segments of pillars: all decapitated columns, the idea of decapitating pillars of the community, the idea of dethroning kings, the eating of fruit like grapes, apples, etc; all edible things like coconuts, papaya,, unpeeling the head of a banana and eating it, all vegetables in the shape of a head like onions, cabbage, lettuce, the picking of leaves, the picking of fruits, the picking of beans: all drug foods the picking of spices: creating every single drug we call food, ice cream cones, all ice cream in the shape of a decapitated head, all food portions in the shape of a head, all toppings on all food, decapitated flowers, the Rose Parade: hundreds of millions of decapitated heads of flowers, all fire with flames that are decapitated, all fireworks, the crushing of spices, the picking of decapitated heads like mushrooms, eating nuts, cracking their shell, eggs, corks and bungs used to seal barrels and bottles, the tops of bottles, the sealing and taking off the tops of bottles, jars; all tools that have a head, the head of a hammer, nails, the head of a nail, pounding the head of a nail, the cutting off of the heads of large trees before decapitating them, cutting off the heads of animals to kill them and eat them, all mathematics: the counting of heads, or I’s and adding them up, the using of tools to create decapitated segments, all sports, all balls used in sports, the hitting of all balls, ping-pong, badminton, bowling, bowling pins: the decapitation of bowling pins by a bowling ball, kingpins, kings, jewelry, stickpins with diamond heads on them, canes, walking sticks with metal heads, staffs, any artifact denoting being the head of something, scepters, globes, flyswatters, turbans, musical instruments that blare out sound: decapitating it; using holes in wood and brass instruments to decapitate the natural sound into a shorter wavelength, all fretted and unfretted musical instruments, pressing on a fret to make the note shorter, like a violin or guitar, drums, drumsticks, cymbals, the heads of shoelaces, the detached mentality called the ego: decapitated and disconnected from all the other needs and energy flows of a human being, the concept of life after death as a detached form of spirit, the structure of all hierarchy, all capitalist companies and corporate bodies being ruled and controlled by detached heads of business, the capitalization of letters at the head of a word or sentence or paragraph: especially in ancient sacred Christian texts: where the first capital letter is huge, the eating of fish by decapitating them first, the use of all drugs, narcotics wine, coffee, pills: to create a disconnection between the brain and the rest of the human being, the concept of anesthesia, using drugs to numb the brain or prevent it from feeling the body’s pain, all cultures that value stoicism, macho pigs who cannot love, the concept of the hero as a stone face refusing to face the truth, refusing to feel love, refusing to feel any emotion whatsoever, refusing to cry, the stone carvings of all the ancient Kings, the decapitated carvings of all Kings on coins, the insane idea of all kings ruling by only using their decapitated heads as decapitated coins to spread their authority, all stone busts, plaster busts, the stone faces of all heroes in modern media who refuse to feel human emotion, ping-pong, the computer game: pong, King Kong: the King cut off from State: King Kong falling off the Empire State building: all the video games that are based upon decapitated heads decapitating other heads, which are all based on the old arcade pinball machines that shot decapitated heads that bounced around scoring points hitting and scoring on as many stationary targets of decapitated heads as possible, the decapitation of hair… haircuts, shaving daily, cutting your nails, the idea of assassination as a political tool, the concept of character assassination used in all human societies to cut off people who are thought too uppity or stick out too much, and do not conform… the detached form of observation that only use instruments for the eye: microscopes, telescopes, star-gazing, stamp collecting, the collections of anything from bric-a-brac to gold coins, portraits, still pictures of decapitated heads, cameos, brooches, belt buckles, shoe buckles, still photographs of decapitated heads, talking heads, heads on celluloid talking, heads on screens, moving pictures of talking heads, the idea of a leader as a talking head, all pictures on money of decapitated heads, mouthpieces, microphones, the idea of one person speaking for another, speechwriters, lawyers, politicians, amplified music coming out of a loudspeaker, amplifiers of singing-talking heads, the idea of doing nothing but talking as being the only form of social activity allowed in polite societies, the heads of shoelaces, all knots, topknots, tying hair into knots, the idea of cutting up sounds into words, into letters, into decapitated abstract symbols of meaning separated from thee body of the meaning by segmentation, all segmented forms of tool-use, all tools that segment things into decapitated heads, all decapitated forms of awareness-thinking-feeling, all forms of specialization, all segmented ways of living-doing-seeing, decapitating the natural order of things into decapitated insane pieces: decapitating a family into age groups, decapitating a community into alienated isolated individuals, all mass butchery of living animals by cutting off their heads, morse code, ticker tape, all digitalization of signals into meaningless decapitated codes, the invention of the glass tube: the first decapitated head that could mechanically receive and send energy through nerves called wires, the invention of the transistor: the first sold decapitated head that could send and receive signals, the invention of microchips: tiny decapitated heads with their own tiny brain circuits that could perform more complicated functions than the first huge glass-blown giants called vacuum tubes: because there was nothing inside them, all glass blowing, blowing up molten glass with hot air and then decapitating it to make a glass vase or bottle, all containers from bottles, jars, gourds, ladles, to pitchers and teapots with decapitated lids, all containers, chests, holding treasure, wealth, valuables, all spices and decapitated herbs, all furniture made from decapitating trees, all houses made into decapitated heads where the people living inside them only use their heads and not their hearts or bodies, the steam engine: decapitating steam to explode out in puffs of decapitated destroyed power, all wheels, all round wheels used in machines, all watches, with dials pointing at the decapitated numbers of a disconnected circle, the decapitation of all circles into wedges, pie slices, the invention of the wedge, the invention of the axe as a metal decapitated head to stick on a wooden decapitated piece of branch, all idols, all icons, all figureheads, all abstract symbols representing the head, the pinnacle, the top, the apex, the height of anything, all hierarchical awareness and structures that deem the head as the most valuable, the best, the most noble, etc; Jack-in the Box, all boxes, everything that is put into a box or container, FedEx: the obsession of transporting boxes and parcels, the song; ‘Pop goes the Weasel’, all mass-produced goods that are boxed and shipped, the detachment of specialized labor and work, the creation of holes, digging, all mining, piston heads, engine heads, everything that is called the ‘head’ of something, the froth on the top of a glass of beer,: to be blown away, the use of all zeros and ones: as in Japanese Zeros decapitating American ships, zeros and ones being created and then decapitated inside computers, the use of all zeros and ones in mathematics, scalping, the taking of heads, the shrinking of heads: which the computer microchip is the latest evolution of, …


    43. ” She fretted, wringing her hands together and then pressing them to her forehead


    44. “I was sure that text would solve everything but we're no further forward,” I fretted


    45. I have fretted a little about how to approach Al, but I’m just going to invite him over to dinner and ask him


    46. Later, I fretted about whether to tell Phil about Fiona


    47. For the rest of the day she couldn’t concentrate on her work, but fretted in a mixture of nervous excitement and horror


    48. drawn out moments while noisy emotions strutted and fretted upon the stage of our


    49. The Sulabuns were dynamic and heedful that many Kravenas fretted and stepped back


    50. Your deeds got into extemporised strong-rooms made of kitchens and sculleries, and fretted all the fat out of their parchments into the banking-house air






































    1. sixth year and the authorities were already fretting, faced with


    2. things would work out for the best, rarely fretting no matter how late Danny was, and he was


    3. So you just sit there have a drink and stop fretting about those good for nothings at the bar I will sit here and look after you don’t worry


    4. The litany of abuses predicated in the name of free expression, or proxy ―decisions‖ made on behalf of others who are unable to make informed decisions, are understood by the hordes of mentally ill people roaming the streets, who should be otherwise institutionalized for their own safety, if not for the safety of our society, for that matter, who remain on the streets, unable to properly care for themselves, mandated by civil rights organizations fearful that their rights may be jeopardized, people otherwise incapable of making a rational assessment of their own condition; not to mention conferring legitimacy to sexual deviancy in all its varieties that many of us have casually resigned ourselves to as ―simply‖ alternative lifestyles or championing (equal) protection under the law, that, in some instances, should call for censorship, or implausible assumptions regarding the ―unborn,‖ (Abortion) remanding millions of innocents to an early grave, a convenience for women fretting over their figures or professional careers, abetted by spineless politicians, who for expediency sake, continue advancing legislation denying them (―unborn‖) their own inalienable right to choose, had they the means, or encouraging a culture of death (Euthanasia) for the convenience of (the) would-be custodians of the terminally ill or perhaps to (simply) reduce the increasing costs of Healthcare, or the legalization of drugs because that too is a convenient alternative for a number of individuals who have seemingly lost the will to rid our society of rampant drug abuse and therefore justify such (hare-brained) schemes from the vantage point of opportunity savings or reduced social costs, or movements to eliminate God from the public consciousness lest society be reminded of its sins or perhaps because many of us have (conveniently) chosen to become our own gods


    5. From a logical standpoint, there was really nothing I could do, so watching and fretting about it wouldn’t be of any help


    6. 52 He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire


    7. 44 Then the priest shall come and look, and, note, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house; it is unclean


    8. is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire


    9. (The word "fretting" is Strong's H3992 and is ma'ar and means to make bitter or cause bitter pain


    10. 44 Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it

    11. during the month that followed, fretting that she could be pregnant


    12. He’d learned not to waste precious energy fretting


    13. And of how much more value are you than many birds! Besides, all of your anxiety or fretting doubts can do nothing to supply your material needs


    14. She spent her evenings with my mother fretting over Harold’s


    15. JY was fretting


    16. Tim was fretting but still smoking up the stash which I suggested he give back but he decided against that so we both got blazed


    17. preoccupied and fretting over unfinished business


    18. Again, it got me to thinking; how could I waste so much of my life fretting over the selfish wants of the flesh, the lesser things of life, and not have focused on that which is true and forever? This wasn’t a bad feeling, no, not by a long shot, but instead very comical, even to the point that I laughed out-loud


    19. Need to stop fretting over Suong


    20. He was too busy fretting about

    21. “You’re still fretting over this Kobayashi test?” Tammas asked


    22. still fretting about Takina


    23. It was time he put his mind to that endeavor and cease fretting about what could have been and should have been


    24. Let us never give way to a fretting, murmuring, complaining spirit


    25. hours, but my fretting was of no help to Toby


    26. When I returned to the dining room, Andrew was still fretting about Darren


    27. “He was fretting over it yesterday, so it is about time he told her,”


    28. All that fretting seconds ago was a waste of my time


    29. She then thought about poor Tadeo, fretting and losing his hair, and burst into laughter


    30. • No fretting about whether competitors will complain about your tricky methods

    31. He’d already climbed into the rear seat and pulled the door closed, when Sound rapped on the glass, his fretting face peering inside


    32. “I don’t want you fretting over it, Cap’n,” Sound struggled to say


    33. So tell her to stop fretting and get on with it


    34. Priscilla fretting in her chair that he should stay away so long saw very clearly that no cook could help them


    35. As he scrambled about trying to find his bearings, this mysterious and cloaked figure was still fretting about trying to unnerve him


    36. ” Dawit was still fretting about Taran’s remark


    37. In any case, was that not what the majority of marriages achieve? We made love twice during the week she spent in Cairo and I was constantly fretting I might accidentally call her Marian


    38. The struggling and fretting after originality that one sees in modern art is certainly an evidence of vitality, but one is inclined to doubt whether anything really original was ever done in so forced a way


    39. But while speaking against fretting after eccentricity, don't let it be assumed that any discouragement is being given to genuine new points of view


    40. He was fretting over the fire while she laughed

    41. sets into motion the actuality of it; so stop fretting, your friend Sanguine knew what she


    42. She loved him? Caleb had been fretting over the bond that had formed between her and Dominic the last few months


    43. Put the welfare of your family first_, and stop fretting about yourself


    44. So he tortured himself, fretting himself with such questions, and finding a kind of enjoyment in it


    45. Maritornes was fretting and sweating at finding herself held so fast by Don Quixote, and not understanding or heeding the words he addressed to her, she strove without speaking to free herself


    46. Or to Hindu flutes and the fretting twang of the vina,


    47. "If one could have a fine house, full of nice girls, or go traveling, the summer would be delightful, but to stay at home with three selfish sisters and a grown-up boy was enough to try the patience of a Boaz," complained Miss Malaprop, after several days devoted to pleasure, fretting, and ennui


    48. Something seemed to be fretting him


    49. Always when he went with Miriam, and it grew rather late, he knew his mother was fretting and getting angry about him---why, he could not understand


    50. She gathered something was fretting him, that he found things hard
































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    Synonyms for "fret"

    fret greek fret greek key key pattern worn spot lather stew sweat swither eat away erode chafe fray rub scratch choke gag eat into grate rankle fuss niggle gall corrosion gnawing annoyance harassment irritation vexation worry fume goad harass irritate needle nettle corrode gnaw rust wear away

    "fret" definitions

    agitation resulting from active worry


    a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion


    an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)


    a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch


    worry unnecessarily or excessively


    be agitated or irritated


    provide (a musical instrument) with frets


    become or make sore by or as if by rubbing


    cause annoyance in


    gnaw into; make resentful or angry


    carve a pattern into


    decorate with an interlaced design


    be too tight; rub or press


    cause friction


    remove soil or rock


    wear away or erode