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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
ranking | word | |
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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?
Biden will likely continue to take a page from Donald Trump in 2016. If you'll remember, Trump essentially, just treaded water in the debates, he never won any debate but he managed to stay above the fray. Biden is likely hoping that he can ride a similar strategy to get through a splintered Dem primary.
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.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee:
I don't think it'll be a big shock to anybody if I jump in the fray and once again run for president in 2016.
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.
In Eastern and Central Europe, where Russia is regarded as by far the number one security threat, relations( with China) had already been starting to fray, but the fact that China so clearly lined up with Russia has accelerated a shift.
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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