Outrage vs Fret - What's the difference?
outrage | fret |
An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=1 An offensive, immoral or indecent act.
The resentful anger aroused by such acts.
(obsolete) A destructive rampage.
To cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse.
* Atterbury
* Broome
(archaic) To violate; to rape (a female).
(obsolete) To rage in excess of.
To devour, consume; eat.
* (rfdate)— Piers Ploughman.
* Wiseman
(transitive, and, intransitive) To gnaw, consume, eat away.
To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
To cut through with fretsaw, create fretwork.
To chafe or irritate; to worry.
To worry or be anxious.
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, title= To be vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions.
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*:Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
* Dryden
To make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple.
To be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle.
(music) To press down the string behind a fret.
To ornament with raised work; to variegate; to diversify.
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
* Pope
Herpes; tetter.
(mining, in the plural) The worn sides of river banks, where ores, or stones containing them, accumulate by being washed down from the hills, and thus indicate to the miners the locality of the veins.
(music) One of the pieces of metal/wood/plastic across the neck of a guitar or other musical instrument that marks note positions for fingering.
An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief).
* Evelyn
(heraldiccharge) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
In transitive terms the difference between outrage and fret
is that outrage is to cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse while fret is to chafe or irritate; to worry.As an initialism FRET is
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English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=“There the cause of death was soon ascertained?; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”}}
- "by the outrage and fury of the river " (from an old description of flood damage).
Verb
(outrag)- Base and insolent minds outrage men when they have hope of doing it without a return.
- This interview outrages all decency.
- (Young)
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
- Adam freet of that fruit, And forsook the love of our Lord.
- Many wheals arose, and fretted one into another with great excoriation.
- A wristband frets on the edges.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.}}
- He frets , he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.
- to fret the surface of water
- Rancour frets in the malignant breast.
- whose skirt with gold was fretted all about
- Yon grey lines, / That fret the clouds, are messengers of day.
Noun
(en noun)- (Addison)
- He keeps his mind in a continual fret .
- Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret .
- (Dunglison)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) < (etyl), from the verb (m).Noun
(en noun)- His lady's cabinet is adorned on the fret , ceiling, and chimney-piece with carving.