frayed
/fɹeɪd/ adjectif C2En français : effiloché, usé, à vif
- Unravelled; worn at the end or edge.
- Exhausted, strained, beleaguered, or suffering from stress.
Dans la bibliothèque
The Sheep eating the acorns inadvertently frayed and tore the cloak.
A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him.
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.
He was clad in a professional but rather slovenly fashion, for his frock-coat was dingy and his trousers frayed.
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