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How to pronounce “fret”

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Pronunciation guide for fret

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of fret with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Made by Handfor frets.
Definition summary: (transitive, obsolete or poetic) Especially when describing animals: to consume, devour, or eat.

Example 1 of 8

Made by Hand

for frets.

[Verb]
(transitive, obsolete or poetic) Especially when describing animals: to consume, devour, or eat.
(transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
(transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
(transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
(ambitransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
(ambitransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
(intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
(intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
(intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
(intransitive, brewing, oenology) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
[Noun]
Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
(mining, in the plural) The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.