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# frazzle

«frazzle» in Mova's school dictionary: **to be completely tired out** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a frazzle); verb (frazzle, frazzles, frazzled, frazzling); adjective (frazzled)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (informal) To be worn to a frazzle is to be completely tired out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frazzle/#m1)

2) (informal) Burnt to a frazzle means burnt until black and crisp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frazzle/#m2)

3) To frazzle someone is to make them tired, nervous and stressed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frazzle/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Everyday family talk (Mum is frazzled after a long day), cooking jokes (the toast is burnt to a frazzle), stories about busy days.

### examples

- By Friday the teacher was worn to a frazzle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frazzle/#x1)
- Dad burnt the sausages to a frazzle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frazzle/#x2)
- The noisy party frazzled Grandma. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frazzle/#x3)
- She looked frazzled after moving house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frazzle/#x4)
- Exams can frazzle your nerves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frazzle/#x5)
- The twins wore their babysitter to a frazzle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frazzle/#x6)

### note

Informal. Most common as the adjective «frazzled» (tired and stressed). Similar: exhausted, worn out.

### In the corpora

- [When a parent seems frazzled after work, it is usually the workload, not anything the child did.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «frazzle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frazzle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.