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frayed

/fɹeɪd/ adjetivo C2

En español: deshilachado

  1. Unravelled; worn at the end or edge.
  2. Exhausted, strained, beleaguered, or suffering from stress. (figuratively)
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The Sheep eating the acorns inadvertently frayed and tore the cloak.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 91 · B2
A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 3 · B2
Here is a man with an English coat frayed at the elbow and trousers bagged at the knee with a year's wear, and yet by this document and by his own account he is a provincial American lately landed in London.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 78 · B2
He was clad in a professional but rather slovenly fashion, for his frock-coat was dingy and his trousers frayed.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 6 · C1

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