Rage vs Fret - What's the difference?
rage | fret | Synonyms |
Violent uncontrolled anger.
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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
A current fashion or fad.
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(lb) Any vehement passion.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:in great rage of pain
* (1800-1859)
*:He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.
*(Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)
*:convulsed with a rage of grief
(label) To act or speak in heightened anger.
(label) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
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(label) To enrage.
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.
Rage is a synonym of fret.
As a verb rage
is .As an adjective fret is
cold.rage
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* fury * ireDerived terms
* pavement rage * road rage * roid rage * trolley rageVerb
(rag)- The madding wheels / Of brazen chariots raged ; dire was the noise.
The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.
- "The two women murmured over the spirit-lamp, plotting the eternal conspiracy of hush and clean bottles while the wind raged and gave a sudden wrench at the cheap fastenings.
- Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it.
- (Shakespeare)
Anagrams
* ----fret
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.
