Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The velvet frayed or rubbed from a deer's antler.
- noun An alarm; a panic.
- noun Contention; struggle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The skin which a deer frays from his horns.
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- verb Present participle of
fray . - noun The
skin which adeer frays from itshorns .
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Examples
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But the veneer created by parties for Manhattan's art-power-money set masks what insiders describe as a fraying organization run at the whim of board president O.
Eccentric National Arts' Prez Rented Insanely Cheap Rooms To Trustees 2011
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But the veneer created by parties for Manhattan's art-power-money set masks what insiders describe as a fraying organization run at the whim of board president O.
Eccentric National Arts' Prez Rented Insanely Cheap Rooms To Trustees 2011
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But the veneer created by parties for Manhattan's art-power-money set masks what insiders describe as a fraying organization run at the whim of board president O.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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It is the Marxist agenda that has seeped into our ruling caste - especially the Police and judiciary - that is whoilly responsible for what Fraser politely calls the 'fraying' (read wholesale destruction) of our social fabric.
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"Confidence in the U.S. dollar is 'fraying' and a shift away from the greenback after the financial crisis is inevitable."
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It is the Marxist agenda that has seeped into our ruling caste - especially the Police and judiciary - that is whoilly responsible for what Fraser politely calls the 'fraying' (read wholesale destruction) of our social fabric.
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Clinton also said decades-old arms-control treaties were "fraying" and noted that in many places, "economic opportunity is still too narrow and shallow."
Spero News 2010
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The American League club also said that exploratory surgery on pitcher Dirk Hayhurst yesterday morning revealed "fraying" to the labrum in the right shoulder.
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The American League club also said that exploratory surgery on pitcher Dirk Hayhurst yesterday morning revealed "fraying" to the labrum in the right shoulder.
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In a speech at the National Defense University, Vice President Biden "called on the US Senate Thursday to ratify an international treaty banning nuclear testing to strengthen a 'fraying' international consensus against the spread of nuclear weapons."
Center for American Progress Action Fund Think Progress 2010
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