frazzle
verb (used with or without object)
to wear to threads or shreds; fray.
frazzles
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present tense formof frazzle (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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“There’s a script for ‘Barefoot in the Park’ that’s so fragile that I’m afraid to even touch it because the paper is so old that it sort of frazzles away,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2022
Constantly hovering over your children, while simultaneously trying to have a fight on Twitter and find a food recycling bag, frazzles everyone.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 14, 2018
Many return to a single topic: technology-driven modernity and how it frazzles the contemplative mind.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2015
It is a lot of typical evenings in New York rolled into one, shaped by Broadway's Neil Simon into a frantic, funny tale that frazzles the nerve ends.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was rawhiding myself to beat the everlasting band at the prospect of having to make this long, tiresome day jump alone, and it's done me a heap of good to talk you to frazzles.
From Branded by Francis Lynde
