fret
/fɹɛt/ nom C2En français : tourment, agitation, irritation
- 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. · He keeps his mind in a continual fret.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
- 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.
Pluriel frets
Dans la bibliothèque
He walked away again immediately, and she was left to fret over her own want of presence of mind: Charlotte tried to console her.
You have now done your duty by her, and must fret no longer.”
She was confident of having performed her duty; and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was no part of her disposition.
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