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View synonyms for frazzle
frazzle
[ fraz-uhl ]
verb (used with or without object)
, fraz·zled, fraz·zling.
- to wear to threads or shreds; fray.
- to weary; tire out:
Those six eight-year-olds frazzled me.
noun
- the state of being frazzled or worn-out.
- a remnant; shred.
frazzle
/ ˈfræzəl /
noun
- informal.the state of being frazzled or exhausted
- a frayed end or remnant
- to a frazzle informal.absolutely; completely (esp in the phrase burnt to a frazzle )
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of frazzle1
C19: probably from Middle English faselen to fray, from fasel fringe; influenced by fray ²
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Example Sentences
He was streaked with ashes and soot and sweat, and so was his horse, and they both looked worn to a frazzle.
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All he's got to do is to start out empty-handed and lick the world to a frazzle.
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Neither can lick the other to a frazzle and neither can afford to give up till it is completely licked.
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So back to the hotel went Billy to enter upon a period of waiting that frayed his nerves to an utter frazzle.
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If you face the supernatural, it is more than half beaten to a frazzle, before the fight begins.
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