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Frazzle   /frˈæzəl/   Listen
noun
Frazzle  n.  
1.
The act or result of frazzling; the condition or quality of being frazzled; the tag end; a frayed-out end. (Prov. Eng. & U. S.) "My fingers are all scratched to frazzles."
2.
A state of extreme exhaustion; often used in the phrase worn to a frazzle. "Gordon had sent word to Lee that he "had fought his corps to a frazzle.""



verb
Frazzle  v. t.  (past & past part. frazzled; pres. part. frazzling)  To fray; to wear or pull into tatters or tag ends; to tatter; used literally and figuratively. (Prov. Eng. & U. S.) "Her hair was of a reddish gray color, and its frazzled and tangled condition suggested that the woman had recently passed through a period of extreme excitement."






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"Frazzle" Quotes from Famous Books



... kissing her very tenderly whispered, "My dear, together we will win," and went his way. When he wished to be, Napoleon was the ideal lover; he was master of that fine forbearance, flavored with a dash of audacity, that women so appreciate. He never wore love to a frazzle, nor caressed the object of his affections into fidgets; neither did he let her starve, although at times she might ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 2 of 14 - Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women • Elbert Hubbard

... "Please don't go into that now, Rose. It's after one o'clock, and you're worn to a frazzle. If we've got to go into it, let's do it some other time, when we can ...
— The Real Adventure • Henry Kitchell Webster

... weeds didn't get ahead of me the way they did last winter. Look out, there!" he cried, as Mr. Anthony laid his hand on the head of a Jersey calf that backed awkwardly from under his grasp. "Don't let her get a hold of your coat-tail; she chawed mine to a frazzle the other day; the girls pet her so much ...
— The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories • Margaret Collier Graham

... her head to reply; but at the moment a small boy, followed by a smaller girl, coming around the corner of the house, created a diversion. The girl, a little dancing imp with a frazzle of flying red hair and red-brown eyes, catching sight of Judith ran to her and flung herself head foremost in the visitor's lap, where Judith cooed over her and cuddled her, rumpling the bright hair, rubbing her crimson cheek against ...
— Judith of the Cumberlands • Alice MacGowan

... you stay down-away at the Sausage Farm? It's a scream, it wouldn't seem you could dream such perfect ch-e-arm; You can bet that Jazz'll be beat to a frazzle, And the old Fox Trot'll be a pale green mottle, When they gauge what's the rage of the age at the Sausage ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Jan. 29, 1919 • Various


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