fray
suomi-englanti sanakirjafray englannista suomeksi
purkaantua, rispaantua
hangata
rähäkkä, riita
Substantiivi
fray englanniksi
To rub or away (something); to cause (something made of strands twisted or woven together, such as cloth or rope) to unravel through friction; also, to irritate (something) through chafing or rubbing; to chafe.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) John Byddell,(nb...)|year=1538|section=folio lxv, recto|sectionurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ABnAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP147|oclc=1063243010|passage=the Apostle|S. Paul alſo defineth the law to be the knowlege of ſyn, y&877; is, which accuſeth, frayeth the cõſcience, & maketh ſynnes knowen.
(RQ:Tatler) four striped muslin ''night-rails'' very little frayed; (..)
(RQ:Dickens Old Curiosity Shop)
(RQ:Dickens Great Expectations)
Of a deer: to rub (its antlers or head) against a tree, etc., to remove the velvet from antlers or to mark territory; also, to rub its antlers against (a tree, etc.) for that purpose.
To bruise (someone or something); also, to take the virginity of (someone, usually a female person); to deflower.
(RQ:Ovid Golding Metamorphosis)
To become unravelled or worn; to unravel.
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(RQ:Austen Northanger Abbey)
To rub.
(RQ:Jefferies Red Deer)
Of a deer: to rub its antlers against a tree, etc., to remove the velvet or to mark territory.
(RQ:Gascoigne Venerie). When his head is growne out to the full bigneſſe, then he rubbeth of that pyll, and that is called ''fraying of his head''.|footer=A (glossary) use.
(RQ:Scott Poetical Works) / We can shew the marks he made, / When ’gainst the oak his antlers fray’d; (..)
Of a person's mental strength, nerves, temper, etc.: to become exhausted or outAdjective|worn out.
A consequence of rubbing, unravelling, or away|wearing away; a fraying; also, a place where fraying has occurred.
(RQ:Middleton Works)
(RQ:Herrick Hesperides)
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(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene) Inſtead of fraying, they them ſelues did feare, / And trembled, as them paſſing they beheld: / Such vvondrous povvre did in that ſtaffe appeare, / All monſters to ſubdevv to him, that did it beare.
(RQ:Homer Chapman Iliads) every least commander’s will, best soldiers had obey’d, / And both the hosts were rang’d for fight, the Trojans would have fray’d / The Greeks with noises; crying out, in coming rudely on / At all parts, like the cranes that fill with harsh confusion / Of brutish clangour all the air; (..)
(RQ:Robert Browning Christmas-Eve)
''Often followed by'' away'','' off'', or'' out: to frighten or scare (someone or something) away.
(RQ:Marlowe Tamburlaine)
(RQ:King James Version)
(RQ:Purchas Pilgrimes)|page=624|section=III (Of Crocodiles, Serpents, and Other Strange Creatures)|passage=It basilisk frayeth avvay other Serpents vvith the hiſſing.
(RQ:More Antidote)
(RQ:Spectator)
(RQ:South Five Volumes) Can he fray off the vultur from his breaſt, that night and day is gnavving his heart, and vvounding it vvith ghaſtly and amazing reflexions?
(RQ:Scott Tales of the Crusaders)
(RQ:Isaac Taylor Enthusiasm)
To assail or attack (someone or something); to drive (someone or something) away by attacking.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Waldegrave|Robert Waldegraue, for Thomas Man|year=1583|page=35|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=1PpiAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA35|oclc=1126459722|passage=And this is it, that frayeth men from Chriſt, becauſe they are loath to vunder go his burthen and yoke, to caſt of the world, & leuing thẽſeluen behind thẽ to follow Chriſt.
(RQ:Quarles Emblemes)
To be afraid or frightened; to fear.
To make an assault or attack; also, to create a disturbance; to brawl, to fight.
(RQ:Howell Londinopolis)
A noisy commotion, especially resulting from fighting; a brawl, a fight; also, a loud quarrel.
(RQ:Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet Q1-2) ''Pry'': Speake ''Benuolio'' vvho began this fray? / ''Ben'': ''Tibalt'' heere ſlaine vvhom ''Romeos'' hand did ſlay.
(RQ:Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress)
(quote-web) came into the fray, bringing some much needed determination and urgency to lacklustre Arsenal.
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(RQ:Donne Works)
(RQ:Hale Contemplations) 10:4&93;, (..)
(RQ:Tusser Good Husbandrie)
(RQ:Dampier Voyages)|page=148|passage=Thus that fray vvas over, and vve came aſhore again: recovered of the fright vve had been in.
(RQ:Massinger Emperour of the East)
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