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Synonyms for fray
freɪfray
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
fray
A feud is enmity between families, clans, or parties, with acts of hostility mutually retaliated and avenged; feud is rarely used of individuals, never of nations. While all the other words of the group may refer to that which is transient, a feud is long-enduring, and often hereditary. Dissension is used of a number of persons, of a party or other organization. Bitterness is in feeling only; enmity and hostility involve will and purpose to oppose or injure. A quarrel is in word or act, or both, and is commonly slight and transient, as we speak of childish quarrels; contention and strife may be in word or deed; contest ordinarily involves some form of action. Contest is often used in a good sense, contention and strife very rarely so. Controversy is commonly in words; strife extends from verbal controversy to the contests of armies. Affray, brawl, and broil, like quarrel, are words of inferior dignity. An affray or broil may arise at a street corner; the affray always involves physical force; the brawl or broil may be confined to violent language.
Synonyms:
affray, animosity, bitterness, brawl, broil, contention, contest, controversy, dispute, dissension, enmity, feud, hostility, quarrel, strife
Princeton's WordNet
affray, disturbance, fray, ruffleverb
a noisy fight
Synonyms:
commotion, mental disturbance, hurly burly, disturbance, mental disorder, interference, ruff, folie, upset, flounce, flutter, choker, to-do, psychological disorder, perturbation, furbelow, kerfuffle, fracas, frill, hoo-ha, disruption, altercation, ruffle, noise, neck ruff, affray, hoo-hahfray, frazzleverb
wear away by rubbing
"The friction frayed the sleeve"
rub, fray, fret, chafe, scratchverb
cause friction
"my sweater scratches"
Synonyms:
fuss, eat into, itch, excise, gag, choke, scratch up, nark, erode, fret, excoriate, bother, rile, scrub, gravel, strike, rub, inscribe, rankle, get to, eat away, come up, scrape up, scrape, cancel, nettle, gall, call off, chafe, get at, engrave, scratch, irritate, annoy, frazzle, niggle, rag, expunge, vex, grate, devil, grave
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#3061 | noise | |
#3439 | cancel | |
#3575 | contest | |
#3884 | strike | |
#5117 | devil | |
#5676 | dispute | |
#7665 | scratch | |
#8065 | grave | |
#8714 | interference | |
#9423 | upset | |
#9858 | controversy | |
#9936 | bother | |
#12429 | gag | |
#12745 | rub | |
#13072 | gravel | |
#14374 | disturbance | |
#15079 | disruption | |
#15810 | rag | |
#15888 | scrub | |
#17032 | contention | |
#17290 | excise | |
#19552 | frey | |
#20785 | annoy | |
#20976 | fuss | |
#21204 | choke | |
#21252 | gall | |
#21810 | hostility | |
#24177 | strife | |
#25991 | perturbation | |
#26507 | itch | |
#26809 | ruff | |
#27090 | fret | |
#27707 | fray | |
#29904 | bitterness | |
#30495 | erode | |
#32424 | scrape | |
#32721 | feud | |
#33184 | grate | |
#34118 | choker | |
#34901 | ruffle | |
#35039 | commotion | |
#36034 | quarrel | |
#36679 | brawl | |
#37891 | flutter | |
#40467 | broil | |
#42240 | nettle | |
#47688 | irritate | |
#48768 | animosity | |
#50674 | enmity | |
#51842 | altercation | |
#54523 | vex | |
#59798 | engrave | |
#70012 | folie | |
#75983 | fracas | |
#78005 | dissension | |
#88074 | expunge | |
#89948 | kerfuffle | |
#90291 | chafe | |
#99707 | frill | |
#105759 | inscribe | |
#127183 | rile | |
#167642 | niggle | |
#175640 | flounce | |
#209376 | affray | |
#224515 | frazzle | |
#231498 | nark | |
#249874 | rankle | |
#296996 | excoriate |
How to use fray in a sentence?
Aventura Major Michael Bentolila:
It's the most heartbreaking thing I have ever witnessed. Moms, kids, yelling screaming, falling, tripping, kids - lost in the fray - amid the chaos and running around blindly in search of their parents.
It has also become clear some of my colleagues intend to further politicize this process, and drag the Supreme Court into the fray, while attacking the Chief Justice, i will not stand for nor support that effort. We have already degraded this institution for partisan political benefit, and I will not enable those who wish to pull down another.
When people first fall in love, where they first feel infatuation, sometimes logic goes out the window, there's lots of data showing that logical thought patterns sometimes get lost in the fray when someone really is very attracted to a person or they're feeling the throes of passion.
In that spirit, we hope that we can rise above the partisan fray to negotiate meaningful change for Americans across the nation and maintain the United States’ standing as the best country in the world.
I used to anchor at CNN, and now I just yell at CNN, i think originally,it was pretty much 99 percent news content… as cable news evolved and more competition came into the fray,you had more opinion, particularly in the evening hours.And I would say that’s the major difference now. But maybe with the new ownership that may revert to more just basic news coverage.
Translations for fray
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- نزاعArabic
- оръфвам, свада, стълкновение, сбиване, износвам, протърквамBulgarian
- desfilar-seCatalan, Valencian
- drásat, třepit seCzech
- ausfransen, SchlachtGerman
- σύρραξη, συμπλοκή, διαμάχηGreek
- rähinä, harsuuntua, väsyttää, uuvuttaa, riita, purkaantuaFinnish
- bagarre, combat, effilocher, userFrench
- התבלה, קטטה, ריפט, שחק, נשחק, תחרותHebrew
- feslikHungarian
- baruffa, agone, mischiaItalian
- rakneNorwegian
- refrega, desfiarPortuguese
- дра́ка, столкнове́ние, обтрёпываться, борьба́, распуска́ться, расплета́ться, перепа́лка, изна́шиваться, вытира́ться, сты́чка, сраже́ниеRussian
- ఫ్రేTelugu
- çözülmekTurkish
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