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fray

1  [frey]
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–noun
1. a fight, battle, or skirmish.
2. a competition or contest, esp. in sports.
3. a noisy quarrel or brawl.
4. Archaic. fright.
–verb (used with object)
5. Archaic. to frighten.
–verb (used without object)
6. Archaic. to fight or brawl.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME frai; aph. var. of affray

fray

2  [frey]
–verb (used with object)
1. to wear (cloth, rope, etc.) to loose, raveled threads or fibers at the edge or end; cause to ravel out.
2. to wear by rubbing (sometimes fol. by through).
3. to cause strain on (something); upset; discompose: The argument frayed their nerves.
4. to rub.
–verb (used without object)
5. to become frayed, as cloth; ravel out: My sweater frayed at the elbows.
6. to rub against something: tall grass fraying against my knees.
–noun
7. a frayed part, as in cloth: frays at the toes of well-worn sneakers.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME fraien < OF frayer, freiier to rub < L fricāre. See friction
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fray 1   (frā)   
n.  
  1. A scuffle; a brawl. See Synonyms at brawl.
  2. A heated dispute or contest.
tr.v.   frayed, fray·ing, frays Archaic
  1. To alarm; frighten.
  2. To drive away.

[Middle English frai, shortening of affrai; see affray.]
fray 2   (frā)   
v.   frayed, fray·ing, frays

v.   tr.
  1. To strain; chafe: repeated noises that fray the nerves.
  2. To wear away (the edges of fabric, for example) by rubbing.
v.   intr.
To become worn away or tattered along the edges.
n.  A frayed or threadbare spot, as on fabric.

[Middle English fraien, to wear, bruise, from Old French fraier, to rub, from Latin fricāre.]
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Fraying

Fray"ing\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The skin which a deer frays from his horns. --B. Jonson.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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