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Synonyms for fray
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English Synonyms and Antonyms2.0 / 3 votes

  1. 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 WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  1. 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-hah

  2. fray, frazzleverb

    wear away by rubbing

    "The friction frayed the sleeve"

    Synonyms:
    scratch, frazzle, chafe, fret, rub

  3. 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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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. fraynoun

    Synonyms:
    combat, battle, fight

  2. fraynoun

    Synonyms:
    broil, quarrel, riot, affray

  3. frayverb

    Synonyms:
    rub, wear, fret

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. fraynoun

    Synonyms:
    fight, battle, combat, broil, affray, fret, chafe

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "fray":

    frey

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How to use fray in a sentence?

  1. Les Otten:

    At the end of the day, there was more meat and there was less noise, to me, it came down between he and Jeb Bush. I think they were both great, but Kasich managed to stay out of the fray.

  2. Attorney General Matt Whitaker:

    We'll see if [Jack Smith] can use the discipline and the traditions of the Department of Justice and, you know, do his job really above the political fray.

  3. Coleman Breland:

    We didn't just jump into the fray and say let's offer an SVOD [ streaming video on demand ] service, this is very targeted and focused.

  4. Homer:

    He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.

  5. Cleveland Police:

    Both of the officers are and will remain on restricted duty, they have been on restricted duty since this incident happened. That's part of our process, not to allow officers involved in critical incidents to go back out there into the fray. They will remain on restricted duty until we complete the administrative process.


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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